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"Mr President, as my Group’s coordinator on the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, I would like to congratulate the Luxembourg presidency for the outstanding work it has done, not just on moving to close a number of crucial files such as unfair commercial practices, but also in its very strong engagement with the work of our Committee and its very strong commitment to the internal market.
I particularly want to thank the Luxembourg presidency for the fact that, under the leadership of Minister Krecké, it has moved forward with the vital work on the Services Directive. I am delighted that there has been no question of the Luxembourg presidency being intimidated by noises off from certain great figures in European politics about the problems with that directive, of how they have sorted it out, and of how they have killed the directive in some cases. President-in-Office, I have been pleased that you have been as committed to the vital project to complete the internal market as we are on our side, and we will continue to work strongly with the British presidency to bring it to a conclusion and to build on the work that you have done.
If I may, I would like to link that point to some of the important remarks that the President-in-Office made this afternoon. I wanted to pick out one aspect where I disagreed with him: he said that one of the choices we are faced with at the moment is between a free market and a stronger political union. I would suggest, colleagues, that is not the choice at all. We have moved far beyond a free market already: an internal market is an entirely different proposition. It is a major political and economic force. Our citizens want and understand that, but I ask those of you still here in the Chamber how many of your electors know what a political union is, and know in what direction it is taking us? Surely one of the reasons why the Constitution was rejected so soundly in Holland and France was because people do not understand what a political union is. They actually feel threatened by the potential loss of sovereignty that it implies. Therefore, let us get on with the internal market. We may want to review where the political union goes and the changes we make to the Constitution, but the internal market must continue to be the driving force during the British presidency."@en1
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