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"Commissioner, your speech took the words right out of my mouth, since I was actually going to say that Commissioner Lamy has always answered my questions fully. I am very grateful to you for that, as I am always grateful to you for your answers to my questions during Parliamentary Question Time.
In any event, I would like to say, before asking one last question, that the members of the Delegation for relations with the countries of South America and Mercosur have just returned from Brasilia. We held meetings with members of the Brazilian Government, with parliamentary leaders, with the President of Congress, and with President Lula’s principal advisors, and we realised once again that we are dealing here with an extraordinary country, which is setting in motion an exemplary social inclusion programme, which will be crucial to its future. As the Commissioner knows, this country also enjoys privileged economic relations with Europe, in addition to the traditional relations of cultural kinship.
In addition, I myself have just spent a month and a half in Argentina, on political business, and have seen the progress that the country has made. Mercosur sees its connections with the European Union as a historical relationship between sister states, as a partnership which is essential in order to avoid subordination to the United States. That is why I ask whether the Commission is prepared to give special priority in future to its relations with Mercosur, and perhaps with the whole of South America, which may possibly join Mercosur."@en1
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