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Although I voted in favour of this document, I wish to emphasise that the recent European Council meeting in Brussels was not a failure. It was a success, a double success in fact: no agreement was reached on the rash constitutional fantasy; it also introduced the Growth Initiative. By 2010, we will have mobilised investment worth several million euros in projects for genuine harmonisation, cohesion and growth: Trans-European networks (transport, telecommunications and energy), as well as innovation, research and development. This is what integrating Europe is really about!
As I stated in another explanation of vote on the IGC, one can detect in this two-fold decision the influence of the founding spirit of Robert Schuman himself: ‘Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity’.
For this very reason, it is utterly deplorable
and something we must firmly reject – that following the Brussels Summit, Germany and France – it is always the same countries!
unfortunately accompanied, this time, by the United Kingdom, Sweden, the Netherlands and Austria, have exerted intolerable pressure to limit the EU Budget for 2004 to 1% of GDP. This attitude ignores all current developments, damages Europe and tears it apart. Furthermore, it betrays Schuman and the European spirit.
I also welcome the inclusion of paragraph 49 on Cuba and Oswaldo Payá, which was the result of my proposal in the original UEN text."@en1
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