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"Mr President, President of the Commission, I remember the state of mind that prevailed in this House five years ago when you assumed your responsibilities. This Parliament was then in a rather paradoxical situation. The problem was that it had for too long been too indulgent towards the institution to which it was closest, namely your own. Because it had been too indulgent, Parliament had suddenly had to bang its fist on the table and almost censure your predecessor. You arrived filled with a spirit of distrust of our institution because, ever since we had ceased to be indulgent and had banged our fists on the table, the Commission saw us as a threat and seemed to tremble whenever our institution took the slightest initiative. For your part, the governing idea of your legislature was that you would be the government of Europe.
Since then, it seems to me that matters have righted themselves. You have renewed the closeness that existed between our two institutions, and you have not become the government of Europe, with or without the Draft Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, which our nations are now asked to consider. You have presided over a college. I should like to salute the track records of a number of its members and, as you will not be surprised to hear, particularly of Mr Vitorino, Mr Lamy, Mr Verheugen, Mr Almunia and his predecessor, and Mr Busquin. I believe that it is thanks to the energy of these Commissioners, and of a number of others, that the college over which you have presided has been able to achieve its, and your, present track record.
Next, I wish to commend one particular feature of your term of office: almost paradoxically, a sometimes too visionary form of perhaps unwarranted intelligence. I refer to three of your experiments. The first is the occasion on which you appointed a group of ‘wise men’ around Mr Dehaene who, intelligently enough, had proposed that our documents be divided into two parts and that our common policies be revised to reflect the majority opinion. There were also the Sapir and Penelope reports.
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