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"en.20051026.17.3-176"2
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"Mr President, I have to admit that Prime Minister Blair’s speeches have a certain seductive appeal. After hearing the speech he gave to the House in June, and his concluding speech today, I should like to start by saying that I regard Prime Minister Blair as one of the few real statesmen in Europe. Yet he took his charm with him when he left, and my comments will therefore be of a somewhat different tenor.
There are increasing indications that the outcome of the British Presidency will be bad news for the European Union. This begs the question of what steps the British Presidency intends to take over the next two months to ensure that genuine progress is made on at least two issues. The new Member States too regard the Financial Perspective as problematic, since they will suffer as a result of it. Does the British Presidency have any idea how these countries could be compensated for the losses they will incur? The second point I should like to make is that the European Union needs a political dimension. What proposals will the British Presidency make to the European Union in this regard?"@en1
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