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Mr President, first of all my thanks to the rapporteur and to colleagues who worked on this topic, since it is very simple and very complicated at the same time.
Thinking about it, it is very simple; that is to say, it has taken 20 years, since signature of the Treaty of Maastricht, to realise that there might be a need to engage in some discussion with national parliaments. In principle, it is not such an extraordinary idea that, having a common currency, it would perhaps be better, when we are producing the budgets, to try to talk a little, have an exchange and ensure that the European level and the national level cooperate.
From another angle, it is very complicated, since there is a lot of sensitivity around a certain idea of sovereignty, which, although it is already shared, some consider a pure and perfect form. I find, therefore, that Mr Gauzès has done a very good job.
What concerns me – as has just been said – is how, when it comes down to it, what is written on paper will be translated into reality. How, over the years, are we going to manage to introduce real content, so that cooperation between national parliaments and the European Parliament is not discussion, which is useful, but genuine control by national parliaments of what is theirs to control at their level, and control at European level of what we must control and, ultimately, a policy which is better for ordinary people and for currency stability.
This report is a milestone on a journey on which, in my opinion, there is still a long way to go."@en1
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