(Note: At this point a number of MEPs walked out of the Chamber) Mr Klaus believed that "attempts to speed up and deepen integration" could "endanger all the positive things achieved in Europe in the last half a century" and he urged that the situation must not be allowed "where the citizens of Member countries would live their lives with a resigned feeling that the EU is not their own, that it is developing differently than they would wish, that they are only forced to accept it".
Prezidents arī kritizēja to, ka ES pašlaik veidojas kā sistēma, kas „pastāvīgi stiprina centrāli uzraudzītu ekonomiku”, un iebilda pret viedokli, ka ekonomikas un finanšu krīzi izraisīja brīvais tirgus, nevis „politiskās manipulācijas ar tirgu”.