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"Madam President-in-Office of the Council, I believe that you will leave this meeting happy because we are telling you that you are entering the final exam at Gothenburg well prepared. I believe that today Parliament has recognised the efforts of the Swedish Presidency, and yours in particular, to carry out successful work. And I also want to acknowledge this.
I believe that you have acted with political care. For example, on the agreement on the memorandum on the cohesion funds you acted quickly, and that is positive, because Europe is not a Europe of traders, but a Europe of cohesion and of the common principles and values which we all share. And I also believe that in the same way there has been a change in the Swedish Presidency in the latest preparatory documents on an issue which is of great concern to this Parliament; the convention.
I believe that between the outset and today there has been a change, and that is that you have understood that the next Intergovernmental Conference should be prepared in such a way as to prevent what happened with the Treaty of Nice, and I believe that the convention model is showing the way: this models means participation, openness and transparency, all characteristics which you have a particular interest in. I would like to ask you now to show a little more daring – as a French revolutionary would say
[what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare]. You will notice that I am next to François Bayrou and I have been imbued with these revolutionary ideas.
Be more daring, opt for the convention, because I believe that that is the lesson we must learn from the Irish referendum. We must count on the people, listen to them, hear them, and the convention is a useful method for doing this. I therefore urge you to continue in this direction, which the President of my Group, Mr Poettering, has argued for, and to come back from Gothenburg with the good news that that convention has been launched to assess the future of Europe."@en1
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"de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace"1
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