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"As the honourable Member knows, because a paper which the High Representative and I wrote for the European Council miraculously found its way into the newspapers, the question of better coordination of Member States' activities is one that both Javier Solana and I feel strongly about. For a start, it would be nice always to know what Member States are doing.
The High Representative and his colleagues in the secretariat are bending their best efforts to try to achieve that at the moment. They are trying to explain, for example, to the United States the full scale of what Europe is doing in the Balkans. We have had problems which should not have arisen because we have not always known in sufficient detail exactly what Member States, as well as the European Commission, are up to. So we need to work more closely and in a more coordinated way. That is an issue which the High Representative and I are attempting to take on more positively. I hope that the Stability Pact conference a couple of weeks ago was a help along that road but we will certainly continue to pursue that issue.
On the relationship between the rapid reaction facility and the special envoys who are, of course, responsible to the Council – even though we are responsible for the budget – we will want to work closely with them. There are some in particular whose activities bear on the sort of things we might find ourselves wanting to support through the rapid reaction facility, like the work being done by one of our special envoys in the Great Lakes region in Africa. We will keep in touch with them.
I do not think that the sums of money that we are talking about are going to give us budgetary problems. We can manage EUR 30 or 40 million. I am sure I shall have other opportunities to come back to Parliament and explain some of the pressures we have with much bigger items of expenditure in category 4.One of my continuing obsessions is the gap between the language of our communiqués and what is agreed when finance ministers meet to discuss these things. I am looking forward to what is called a full and frank exchange with Parliament on those issues."@en1
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