European Parliament
Izaskun Bilbao Barandica  (ALDE ).
(ES)
Mr President, on 9 May, the organisation, Eurobask, from the Basque Country, decided to approve a manifesto in which we pro-Europe Basques renewed our commitment to the European project.
We need a Europe that places its citizens at the heart of the integration project rather than the markets; one that stands up for an alternative to managing globalisation, leading multilateral bodies that are able to regulate the financial market.
We want a European economic government that returns the financial system to its conventional mission of supporting the efficacy of the productive economy as a creator of social well-being. To achieve this, a combination of a reduction of the debt and an increase in competitiveness with a maximum investment in research, development and innovation is required, with the specific goal of a low carbon and renewable energy-based economy.
We need to free ourselves from dependency, speed up growth and job creation, and establish new unified tools; more dialogue, greater common foreign policy and answer a wholehearted ‘no’ to discourse that criminalises minorities and immigration: we need all human beings to have equal rights in the face of cutbacks for ethnic minorities.
In short, a new Europe that is once again a benchmark for education and a social model; a useful and just Union in which to live.

