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"Madam President, I must say that as things stand, I have no commitments for next week. There has been no agreement on enlargement. I thought that Commissioner Verheugen would be coming, but I will certainly be available.
We are dealing with a very serious and very important question of procedure. I think that if the type of information we have to give is to work properly for five years, we must clearly establish when the President will be present, when individual Commissioners will be present and when instead, a written communication will be sufficient, because otherwise we will lose our relationship and it will become trivial. I think that the most serious thing is for us to lay down these rules in a small committee. Certainly the President is available in all important and necessary cases, otherwise, and quite rightly, the level of debate they say, will drop. Of course, if more minor questions are asked, then we will have to lower, quite rightly, the debate to the level of the matters in question.
Now, in my opinion we have three levels: the President, specific Commissioners devoted to different areas and routine, which must be conducted in the fastest and most transparent way possible – using the Internet or written communications – because it does not merit being the subject of a debate. We must preserve direct communication when there is going to be a debate. This is what I think and, in this regard, in all the cases where there will be important issues, I will, of course, be happy to be of service to Parliament."@en1
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