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"en.20150624.20.1-198-000"2
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"Mr President, the wise Roman philosopher Marcus Cicero once said: ‘Any man makes mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error’. Europe has faced economic tragedy for nearly a decade. Tragically, we see this played out in Greece on a daily basis – youth unemployment at 51% and the highest rates of suicide in any Western civilised nation. This economic misery is not confined only to Greece – it is in Portugal, Italy, Spain, and Croatia. The common factor of this misery is their membership of the European Union, its bureaucratic controls, over-regulation and lack of democratic accountability.
There is a feeling that people do not matter, only the EU matters. Instead of recognising its mistake – that it is the EU state that is the problem, not the nation state – instead of looking at countries that are succeeding in the global economy, like China, India, Australia and Brazil, the EU persists in its error by issuing reports such as this from the Socialist MEP Madame Berès. Instead of freeing people, it states that the EU must take control of all the countries’ economic, financial and fiscal affairs. Instead of looking to the future, you look to the past with a ‘command economy’ ideology. Instead of unleashing economic liberalism – looking outwards and trading globally – you continue to make the same mistakes. In the words of Cicero, Europe can no longer afford to allow the idiots to persist in their errors."@en1
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