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dcterms:Date	"2011-12-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Conclusions of the European Council meeting (8-9 December 2011) (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"cs"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20111213.5.2-024-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-12-13-Speech-2-025-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Jan Zahradil2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; DROI (2009-07-21--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Občanská demokratická strana (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; DEVE (2009-07-21--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; INTA (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation to the Cariforum — EU Parliamentary Committee (2010-09-08--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I think we can hardly call it a success. We have seen another emergency measure which aims to restore fiscal stability – definitely a step in the right direction, but not sufficient. We have not seen any proposals on how to restore economic growth in Europe and we have seen Europe more divided that ever before in an unprecedented way. Some of you are still talking about 26 and I do not think that any of you are entitled to speak on behalf of 26. So please stop it, it is not true. None of you are entitled to speak for 26 member countries. We have 17 eurozone countries and even those are divided into two parts – those who will pay and those who will be paid. I am sorry for Germany, The Netherlands, Austria and Finland – guys, you will pay a whole lot of money and your taxpayers will probably thank you very much for that. Then we have of course nine non-eurozone countries that might or might not join the plan. This is still under question and some of them might be very reluctant. Of course there is the issue of the United Kingdom, which some of you decided to make a scapegoat for all that mess. I have to defend this country, because what Mr Cameron did was just a defence of his country’s national interest in the same way that Mr Sarkozy and Mrs Merkel did. They pretend that they are speaking on behalf of Europe, but they are speaking on behalf of themselves only. So you have no reason to criticise the United Kingdom, nor its government. I think where we are now is very clear. We are in the situation of a multi-speed Europe. It is a reality. When times get hard, when times get tough, the Community method evaporates and we go into governmental. When we go into governmental, the Commission and Parliament are completely sidelined, and if we are going into governmental, there is an open question about the legal validity of that intergovernmental treaty or agreement – or whatever you call it – and its compatibility with EU primary law. But the truth is that we are in a situation of a multi-speed Europe and where we are now is a result of a misleading, ever-closer Union policy and a one-size-fits-all effort. We will pay economically very dearly for that. We will pay very dearly for that wrong ideologically-motivated strife to maintain the eurozone at any cost. I can only repeat that this is not the EU policy for the 21st century. You might like it or not, but if you do not get it, you might perhaps scrape through this crisis, but others will inevitably come and their consequences might be detrimental."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The speaker agreed to take a blue-card question under Rule 149(8))"1 "Jan Zahradil,"1 "on behalf of the ECR Group."1
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