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By the end of this month you will have to take a crucial decision about the very soul of Europe.

👉 People in Europe want to go forward not backward

👉 They want equality

👉 They want cooperation

👉 They want sustainability

✊ We need to be on their side ✊
Our middle classes are suffering and shrinking.

We need to fix this by creating responsible fiscal systems.

We need major corporations to pay fair taxes.

And we need to increase wages for the middle classes.
We need to focus our investments on the circular economy.

We need to make the move away from fossil fuels and towards more renewable energy and sustainable industries.
If we screw up the ecological transformation then we won’t be able to look our children in the eye.

We can do it, but it needs to be socially sustainable too.

That means that those who can pay more will pay more.
We have given the European Parliament and the European people the chance to choose the future of the European Union with the #Spitzenkandidat process. To take that away would be bad for democracy.
We also need more transparency to maintain the trust of voters in European democracy.

Conservative forces are still refusing to have a mandatory transparency register for EU lobbyists.
If you talk about security, you need to talk about an American President who doesn’t value a strong Europe.

And you have to talk about Russia. We can’t be obsessed but we can’t be naive.

Europe needs to be tough and united if we are to protect our citizens.
There is not going to be a European army any time soon.

We need more cooperation in the field of defence but we don’t need this.
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