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[VIDEO] EU budget summit wrap-up

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Published 26 November 2012

Missed the action at the EU's November budget summit? Fear not, here's a video wrap-up. 

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  • Maybe I am wrong but I've written an alternative press release about this 'ridiculous' summit. What do you think about it?

    http://zmk.blogactiv.eu/2012/11/24/alternative-press-release-about-the-2014-2020-eu-budget-talks/

    We, the respected leaders of the 27 EU Member States failed once again to show to our citizens that we still believe in the European project and that we have understood that only a joint agreement and a commonly agreed budget – as a convincing sign of our good faith – can fight successfully the political-economic-financial crisis that surrounds Europe.

    We have clearly shown that the egoist interests of our own single countries are still much more important than the future of the whole integration altogether. We all wanted to be winners even if meanwhile we all become looser. With that selfish attitude we raised our hands and tacitly accepted that our trust in our common European future has been shaken.

    We admit that a simple school class from any European primary school would have been acted much more wisely than we did. Although we all know that the best examples are the most persuasive tools to gain the support of the general public – often called as the misty ‘financial markets’ – we were not able to reach a compromise about the long-term budget of the EU the whole integration is based on.

    Let’s be honest about it: we simply gave up.

    By :
    Zoltan MASSAY-KOSUBEK
    - Posted on :
    26/11/2012

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