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"Mr President, I would like to welcome Mr Prodi and thank him for his words. I thoroughly regret the fact that the Spanish Prime Minister is not present at this, the final plenary sitting of Parliament under the Spanish Presidency. Next, I would like to say that the six priorities cited by the Spanish Presidency at the beginning of this semester have, in effect, been reduced to two: achieving a fortress Europe and militarising democratic life; and making Europe a police state. In fact, Prime Minister Aznar currently wants to become the chief of police and would also like to achieve a Europe of States which stands in opposition to the Commission and Parliament. Among the proposals he has made for the reform of the Council, I am not sure what I should highlight most: his arrogance or his impertinence. Under the Spanish Presidency, all our problems are worse than six months ago. And Mr Aznar sees himself as permanent President of the European Union. The Irish referendum is neither planned nor completed; nor is enlargement, which is, furthermore, in an even more confused state; nor is the common agricultural policy, nor the common fisheries policy, where he failed to understand the real tension that exists between the northern and southern countries; immigration and asylum are confused with criminality and nothing has been done on the structural funds, on the European budget, on full employment, etc. In fact, there is nothing left of Tampere, Lisbon or Gothenburg. We should ask ourselves what is left of the spirit of these summits. In fact, what is left is a caricature in which José María Aznar, the Spanish Prime Minister, plays the leading role."@en1

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