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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, let me first of all highlight the constructive interinstitutional cooperation that we have seen during this 2004 budgetary procedure. I should like to take this opportunity to again thank the Commission and Parliament, the chairman Mr Wynn, and also Mr Mulder, Mrs Gill, Mr Böge and Mr Colom i Naval – I must mention them all – for their constructive participation. I would also thank the Commission, and in particular, Mrs Schreyer, for making a significant contribution to this process, as well as the Council Secretariat.
We have concluded this second reading of the Draft Budget for 2004, which is a historically important year since it covers the enlargement of the European Union to 25 countries. We are pleased to see that your vote in favour has made the agreement between the institutions – the result of the conciliation meetings of 24 November 2003 – a reality.
While noting that some discrepancies remain on the classification of spending – an issue on which the Council reserves its rights – I should like, in closing this short speech, in the same way that I said initially that today is a historic day, to thank everyone, including the institutions, for having made possible the happy conclusion of a day that will go down in the history of the European Union."@en1
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