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"Mr President of this House, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Mr President-elect of the Commission, we know your team, we have heard the actors, and it is with satisfaction that I expect the kick-off to take place tomorrow, so that your team can get started under auspicious conditions.
We are in any case bound by the provisions of the Treaty. The composition of the Commission requires interaction on the part of the institutions. It is the responsibility of each of the institutions, ourselves included, to ensure that a Commission actually exists at a specific moment in time. This time, the delivery has not been an easy one, but, Mr President-elect, as soon as the child is strong enough, he will certainly be able to develop and flourish.
It is to this that we must devote our shared efforts, each with our own task to perform, and so let us work together honestly, faithfully, constructively and productively – not for the sake of our own comfort, but because it is what people now expect of us. People are not bothered about who does what; they judge by the final balance, by what the EU does for them, and they want to have their say. So, Mr President-elect, let us make the partnership work to which you have made reference twice before, a partnership between the institutions, the Member States, the social partners, consumers and the public.
Let us therefore get to work with an ambitious programme, concluding agreements that allow us the maximum of opportunity to get to grips with the real challenges that face us. And, whilst this obviously means putting enlargement into practice and promoting the ratification of the Constitution, it is also and primarily incumbent on us that we work out how we can help to realise the Lisbon targets of growth, work, prosperity and a better quality of life. For us, it means that we sort out asylum and immigration policy and do so in a humane manner. It means that we combat terrorism without tampering with fundamental freedoms and that the EU can play an important part on the international stage.
We wish you much success with it, Mr President. You can count on our cooperation."@en1
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