Maria João Rodrigues (S&D). – Mr President, the time to wait is over. This is the time to deliver. Mr Verhofstadt is no longer here, but I would like to pick up the issue he raised. We do have a road map for the European Union, and we could force this road map through cooperation between the three institutions. Recently, three speeches of three leaders – Juncker, Macron and Antonio Costa – have showed important overlaps from different political sensitivities.

This means something, but let me be clear about the real meaning of delivery. If we want to deliver on the migration crisis once and for all, we need to prepare a much stronger partnership for African development, and we need to create a real European asylum agency. If you want to deliver better social equality in Europe in this digital age, we need to have a strong pillar to ensure that everybody in employment can count on a decent labour contract and access to social protection. If you want to close these divergences which we still have in Europe, you need to have a community budget and a Eurozone budget working for convergence.

And finally, if you come with the argument that we don’t have the money for this, I’m sorry. The money is there if you add taxation properly on big corporations which are operating in the single market and benefiting from it, particularly in the digital economy. So we have the solutions; we need to start delivering, and the next European council should be a step for this.