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"As I consider that the European Union should continue to support the accession process for candidate countries, provided that they are prepared to accept the legacy of the EU
and meet the criteria imposed by the accession process, I voted in favour of this report. As I have had the opportunity to argue, in order to overcome the current dramatic crisis, we need MORE Europe. We must aim for a federal solution! One with more economic, monetary, fiscal, social and political harmonisation. We have achieved an important critical mass, with 500 million citizens, a commercial weight that rivals the United States and China, a currency that, in just a decade, has become the second most important in the world (which mostly explains the attacks on the ‘markets’), and a social model that is cause for envy on all of the other continents (which, however, we will have to reform as its sustainability has been compromised). I consider that we still need, as a political entity, a proper common foreign and defence policy. Only through such a policy can we exercise our economic weight."@en1
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