Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-12-17-Speech-1-049"
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"Mr President, Mr Verhofstadt, at the end of your Presidency, the situation is now very different from one year ago: the atmosphere has changed completely. We can roll up our sleeves, and you have indeed put three men in charge. I am interested to see how many members the delegation of the European Parliament will have in the Convention. We will count them when the time has come.
You have tabled the questions, a great many questions and the right ones, in my view. Maybe we could add the odd question here and there. Why not? In my opinion, the Convention should have that flexibility.
You outlined a dream a moment ago. In my view, it was a very fitting account, a very attractive prospect of what we ought to do, not only we Western Europeans, the Fifteen, but also Eastern Europe and the rest of the world. However, I would like to ask one more thing, Mr President-in-Office. You have now held the Council Presidency for six months. We now face seven years in which the Belgian Government will not be President again. I would ask you to convince all your Ministers of the fact that, during those seven years, European work is of extreme importance, that the government should not only occupy itself with European issues during the Presidency but also mainly outside of that time, for that period is longer and, most of all, certainly as important."@en1
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