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"Full understanding between our respective institutions and compliance with existing agreements between us are a prerequisite for Question Time to the Council to be properly conducted.
This particular case concerns deadlines for questions to be submitted. As you already stated, our opinions differ. Nonetheless, the time available to the Council, though it is the minimum required, is always very limited when it comes to drafting replies and having them approved by the Member States. I cannot provide any replies in Parliament unless they are approved by the Council in advance.
Further, on this occasion normal working time was disrupted by the Easter celebrations. All the institutions shut down for several days. The Council would like to ensure that there is no repetition of situations such as the one we are confronted with today. We would therefore appreciate it if both institutions could come to an agreement. It should then be able to avoid similar situations in the future, especially when holiday periods intervene.
At a stage when our Presidency is making an unprecedented effort to achieve interinstitutional understanding – I must stress that there has been nothing like this in the past – I really do not want this matter to be blown up out of all proportion. There is no need to make a mountain out of a molehill. There simply has not been enough time. There have not been enough hours in the day to produce replies, and there has not been time either to have the replies approved by the Council and by Council delegations.
I suggest we provide written replies. These questions would anyway have been replied to in writing. Let me remind you that it is almost 6 p.m. We were already half an hour late starting, so we will not even be able to reply to all the questions agreed to, let alone the additional ones.
I should also like to point out, because I feel it is relevant, that the question Mr De Rossa has particularly in mind relates to Palestine. You will recall that an important debate on the situation in the Middle East took place in the House yesterday afternoon. There was no reason why Mr De Rossa could not have put his name forward and asked his question yesterday. Both the High Representative and I were present on behalf of the Council, and we would have been delighted to answer it."@en1
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