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". Mr President, the main basis for the EU’s relations with the United States should be healthy economic competition. The European Union will only reap the rewards of such competition if the European economy is not held back by various curious notions relating to the state, society and taxation. Similarly, we will only reap the rewards of cooperation with the United States if cooperation is based on a US-friendly foreign policy. The United States acts as a stabilising force in global politics. Without it, the world would turn into one great battlefield. Anti-American sentiments, which are expressed particularly frequently by French politicians, are not conducive to neighbourly relations between Europe and the United States. Two years ago, President Chirac told the countries supporting US intervention in Iraq that they had missed a good opportunity to shut up. Now that President Chirac and his predecessor, Mr Giscard d’Estaing, have plunged Europe into utter confusion as a result of premature support for the Constitution, thus shattering the vision of future common European policies, we in turn can say to the French President that he has missed a good opportunity to shut up, or, in his native tongue, ‘ ’"@en1
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"Vous avez perdu l'occasion de vous taire!"1

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