Speech by Donald Tusk, President-in-Office of the Council (PL) and the Prime Minister of Poland Review of the Polish Presidency Debate
Speech by Donald Tusk, President-in-Office of the Council (PL) and the Prime Minister of Poland Review of the Polish Presidency Debate

Summary/Abstract: Speech by Donald Tusk, President-in-Office of the Council (PL) and the Prime Minister of Poland Review of the Polish Presidency Debate in the European Parliament Strasbourg, 14 December 2011 Mr President, honourable Members, six months have passed since we met at the beginning of the Polish Presidency. On that occasion, I gave an assurance of the great importance which Poles attach, and which I personally attach, to the idea of a united Europe. I declared our attachment to the European Union, conscious of the fact that we were assuming the Presidency during a profound crisis. Not just a financial crisis, but – as we could already see then – also a crisis of confidence; while today, and I think we ought to say this unequivocally, it is perhaps also a crisis affecting our politics and the way we are governed.

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