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Madam President, I, too, would also like to thank everybody who has participated in the debate and everybody who has supported us with such clear arguments.
I would also like to thank Sharon Bowles, Chair of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, because the situation was very complicated and it will certainly be thanks to her if we get a positive outcome to the vote tomorrow.
We have had quite an ideological debate today and it is clear that everyone in this House would like to have sustainable public finances and budgetary discipline, but history shows that you cannot achieve that by just spending more money.
We now have a package before us. We have achieved a great deal. Commissioner Rehn has 15 points on his list and it could be that there are some Members who have problems with the detail in this package, but if you look at the alternative offered by the Left, it leaves us even worse off. I therefore hope that, tomorrow, Members will be prepared to rise to the challenge of this very important legislative package for this Parliament, which for the first time in its history is exercising co-legislative powers, just as the Council does.
We will have to clear a few more hurdles next week, but hopefully we will have a positive outcome to the vote tomorrow. We therefore have one more week to go and I hope that we will ultimately be able to take a decision on first reading in July, because we are 98% there.
On behalf of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), I would also like to emphasise what Mrs Goulard said about symmetry and asymmetry. There is indeed a give and take in this House and everyone has their priorities. However, that principle of give and take should also be applied, in terms of symmetry, to this Parliament eventually adopting a position on this package."@en1
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