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"Mr President, allow me first to thank the President-in-Office of the Council for his declarations of principle, especially with regard to the participation of the European Parliament. Without doubt, a difficult task stands ahead of him and he will not even be able to reap the fruits of some of his work, such is the nature of the presidency. If I confine myself to the problem of the Intergovernmental Conference, discussion of the scope of the agenda alone illustrates the differences of opinion which prevail between the Member States. At the risk of repeating myself and knowing that I am at odds with the majority of Members in this House, I stand by my view that the Helsinki Council was right to be so unassuming. After all, we all have first-hand knowledge of how the questions which will now be the central topics of the Intergovernmental Conference were put off and finally left unresolved before Amsterdam.
The European Parliament’s list of requests doubtless contains important questions, but they should not be tackled until the leftovers have been resolved and they should not allow questions of the utmost importance relating to enlargement to be negotiated in passing yet again. We shall have an opportunity to tackle other matters once these nuts have been cracked. Visionaries who put speed before thoroughness worry me."@en1
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