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Madam President, as both you and this House will be aware, neither the Council nor the Presidency are, formally speaking, parties in the discussions between your Parliament, the Commission, and its President. We in the Council have of course been very much involved and have, as you will know, Madam President, given our assent to this new list of Commissioners.
I will readily declare to your House that I am gratified by what Mr Barroso, the new President of the new Commission, has presented to us today, and I wish to congratulate him on it. I also want to congratulate the European Parliament. I have always made it clear that the European Parliament does of course have every right – and, indeed, the duty – to set out a position as regards the new Commission and its members. I have also always made it clear that we do of course have every confidence that Parliament’s position will be a well-considered one. We look forward to tomorrow. I have every confidence that the decision you will reach will be a sensible one. We in the Presidency have always indicated that this situation has never been seen as a crisis; it is, on the contrary, evidence of how conflicts can occur in a mature democracy, and a visible demonstration of how a short-term solution can be found to them. I have every hope that it will become apparent tomorrow that a solution has been found.
By your leave, Madam President, I should like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to Mr Prodi and his Commissioners for having carried on with their work. May I also say that we very much look forward to working with the Commission that has just been presented.
Let me say by way of conclusion that, if you, the European Parliament, come to a favourable decision tomorrow, I think we will all be able to come to the conclusion that both the European Union in general and European democracy in particular, have emerged from this situation with renewed strength."@en1
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