Members of the European parliament respond to the presentation of the priorities for the Czech EU presidency by Mirek Topolanek, prime minister of Czech republic.
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Joseph DAUL (EPP-ED, FR), in French: "Europe rightly criticized the unilateral actions of the present American administration and if, as I hope, things change with the new man in the White House, are we going to be ready to play our role in a multilateral world? are we ready to deploy military means not to wage war but to guarantee peace? are we ready to find the necessary budgetary means to pay for our policies? Mr President on-office, you quite rightly made fro external relations one of your priorities for your Presidency" He enumerates the various part of the world where Europe has to play a role
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Martin SCHULZ (PSE, DE), in German: "You quoted my friend Joseph DAUL and said that 'the financial crisis wasn't all about the defeat of capitalism' Well, yes, but it is a defeat of the capitalists who for years said 'we don't need any rules, market can regulate itself' Those have been defeated, and if today you can explain here that we need a Europe of rules to cope with this crisis, if you say so then I can agree with you Welcome to the club of European regulators Mister TOPOLANEK"
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Graham WATSON (ALDE, GB), in English: "If you truly seek to widen the EU's capacity to act, why have you delayed yet again ratification of the Lisbon Treaty? If you want to prevent weapons proliferation, why are you building a ballistic missile defence system on European soil? and if you want peace in the Middle East why allow Europe to be ridiculed by so many different peace missions?
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Brian CROWLEY (UEN, IE), in English, on the gas crisis between Russia and Ukraine: "I want to pay tribute to both the Presidency and the Commission to have intervened so quickly and make both parts sit down and talk to each other"
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Monica FRASSONI (Verts/ALE, IT), in Italian: "We ask you to try to win over your colleagues to push at the heart of the Spring Council the need to make the 20% energy saving goal by 2020 binding, and to revise your priorities giving a less superficial importance to the decisions taken by the December summit as regards renewable energies"
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Miloslav RANSDORF (GUE/NGL, CZ), in Czech: "I hope that we will be able to overcome the divide between the Western and Eastern Europe and we will continue to build one unity that will no suffer from inferiority complex towards the United States of somebody else"
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