. >> 27-year-old kellen mcclure describes himself as very spiritual. he believes in god and visits churches, but not for their worship services. >> i don't necessarily feel like i need to be guided through my relationship with, you know, the higher power or whatever you will call it. i feel like it's a very personal relationship, and i don't necessarily need to be sitting in a church to experience that relationship. so that's why i've never really been drawn to attending services regularly. >> instead, kellen meditates here in a basilica. >> being spiritual to me means reflecting that maybe i'm not just a biological creature. it means that there's something else and that something else could be a higher power, and it's that something else that connects us to each other. thank you very much for everything that we have. >> kellen says he gives thanks daily. >> every day, my girlfriend and i sit down to dinner. i am insistent that we say a grace. and that grace is not necessarily a religious grace. it's just a moment that we can both sit there and reflect

kellen, on behalf of the ecr. >> thank you, mr. president. there were some good things to come out of last week's council. for instance, the support of the market of 27 member states, developing more open trade, the cutting of some red tape, and the withdrawal of some pending commission proposals were all good things. need to see more action on all of this initiatives initiativesd certainly my group will support you in taking these initiatives forward. when it comes to the main topic of debate, the euro crisis, we can see the summit manifestly failed to deliver. mr. van and you and mr. boroso spoke in june, and you spoke about balancing solidarity with responsibility. you described the results back then as significant. you said it took europe a few more steps down the road to recovery. well, of course, over the summer it became clear that some key member states had second thoughts about what they agreed then, and a few small steps forward were overwhelmed by some pretty giant leaps backwards. the only significance of that summit was that it r