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"Mr President, I too should like to start by expressing my disappointment at the fact that the British Presidency is conspicuous by its absence. I wonder if Mr Lewis could afford to adopt a similar attitude in the British House of Commons.
Secondly, I should like to congratulate both rapporteurs, and in the one minute that has been allocated to me, I would mainly like to talk about democracy. In 2004, we reached an agreement with the Council about the common foreign and security policy, in which we undertook to hold high-level consultations on the content of that policy on a regular basis. The Council has never kept to that undertaking; never has there been any consultation at a high political level.
The Council now takes the view that we have breached the gentlemen's agreement, because we have put a certain amount of that money in reserve, but I would beg to differ. I think it is the Council that has breached the gentlemen's agreement. This agreement is about both Parliament’s and the Council’s administrative expenses. I really fail to see how one could consider the expenses of the common foreign and security policy as administrative expenses. That is why democracy should verify these."@en1
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