– (FR) Mr President, every four months now, at each summit, we see Europe giving itself a pat on the back and indulging in a quarterly self-celebration, whilst the number of demonstrators in the streets of Gothenburg, Nice and Barcelona increases and the people of Europe patently feel more support for the demonstrators than for their leaders who are gathered to hold their fine debates under ever-greater protection as we move from one summit to the next. The reason why the European Union is now wholly opposed to ultra-liberal globalisation is because everyone has realised that it has become globalisation’s main shoehorn, including at the last WTO summit at Doha. Europe – well, what you call Europe – the European institutions, in other words, have e
ssentially ...[+++] become a funnel, which is trying to make the people of Europe approve a rule that is as old as the hills and that is the rule of money.
- Monsieur le Président, tous les trimestres, maintenant, à chaque sommet, nous voyons l'Europe s'auto-célébrer, une auto-célébration trimestrielle, alors que, dans les rues, à Göteborg, à Nice, à Barcelone, le nombre de manifestants augmente et que manifestement les peuples européens sont beaucoup plus du côté de ces manifestants que du côté de leurs dirigeants réunis dans de bonnes guerres de plus en plus protégées, de sommet européen en sommet européen.
