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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Lisbon Summit obtained a single result: distancing Europe’s citizens from the European Union while making more room for lobbyists and technocratic powers. The vision that we are fighting for – that of a Europe of the peoples, of the regions – is further and further away. Even in our Parliament, where are the Corsicans, the people of the Valle d’Aosta, the Basques, where are the Breton separatists, the Alsatians? On the distribution of seats, it is a disgrace that our country, represented by its indignant premier, Mr Prodi, should lose out to France. Yet this was not enough for the evanescent Mr Prodi, who seemed like in Lisbon, totally lost and misinformed. Thanks to Mr Prodi, Italy was excluded from the declaration, from the joint declaration with which France, Germany and the UK quite rightly asked Europe to take steps to avoid a repetition of the financial turbulence resulting from the US sub-prime crisis. According to statements made to the press about the global financial crisis, Mr Prodi said that he could not see the point of Europe’s position on lending. The former Goldman Sachs consultant and ex-President of the Commission may act like a former consultant of a multinational bank at times, but he does not intend to worry about the momentous consequences for Italian families – including those in the north – who are burdened by costs and who cannot make ends meet..."@en1
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"Alice in Wonderland"1

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