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Mr Gahrton, the cause of your concern will vanish on the day that these countries attend this Council, which will then no longer be Euro 11, but Euro 15. In any event, I must tell you that until then, nothing within the European Union prevents countries meeting in smaller groups than in the normal Community context. We are all aware, from newspapers or from conversations in corridors, that various countries in Europe, particularly the Nordic countries, regularly coordinate their positions in a framework that predates the Community decision-making process. This coordination does not, of course, mean that there is any transfer of power to the specific framework in which these discussions are held. This is purely and simply a coordination of joint positions, and it is perfectly natural that countries that joined the third phase of Economic and Monetary Union and which are members of the single currency should need to find specific measures to express their action and that they should collectively bring these issues to Ecofin. I do not think, however, that the position of the other countries is any more restricted in Ecofin than it was at the beginning. But, let us be frank here: minorities are minorities. This means that the democratic process is at work in Ecofin and there is nothing we can do about that. That is how the EU works."@en1
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