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Herman Van Rompuy's First Speech as EU President

Mr Van Rompuy's own words (for full text see link below: 2-page-PDF)

We must make use of the Treaty to pursue ambitious policies. What matters now is the content of those policies: tackling the economic crisis, promoting employment, preserving our social model, fighting climate change, and ensuring energy security. Policies that are worthy of what the European Union represents. Worthy of the expectations of half a billion citizens who have put their trust in us. Worthy of the place that we must occupy in the world. Worthy of this Union which belongs to each one of us and which must respect each one of us.

We are the actors of this fantastic challenge. We must be thorough in carrying out our task. To do so, the European institutions must function as well as possible. They are not rivals, we are all there to serve the same cause. As President of the European Council, I will work with the European Parliament and with the Commission and its President, José Manuel Barroso.

The only thing I can highlight in his aseptic intervention is that when he refers to 'us' he's not talking about us in general, the Europeans, despite, he's talking for 'their us' and 'their we', that are the members of the European Institutions.

If you felt the same while reading the two-pages PDF file I linked below, you might agree that this Europe don't belong to us, the Europeans. Instead, it belongs to them, the beaurocrats and the non-elected-by-people 'representants'.

I don't like the European Union in which Mr Herman Van Rompuy, at his first speech as President of the European Council doesn't talk for the people but for the institutions. I want my President to talk about us, people at streets: the real people who he must have addressed at least part of his words. This EU is kind of a deception for my generation. Please join our movement and demand the right to choose. eU CHOOSE.

Link to the PDF containing the Intervention by Herman Van Rompuy President of the European Council at the ceremony on the occasion of the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, Lisbon, 1 December 2009.
http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_Data/docs/pressdata/en/ec/111656.pdf

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