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Mr Straw, Mr Barroso, I have three remarks to make in response to your speech, Mr Straw.
As regards the Hague Conference, which you mentioned, I will take the liberty of suggesting very modestly to you that you re-read the draft Constitution you signed which, in my opinion, includes solutions in relation both to the division of powers and to the role of national parliaments. Why abandon this draft?
With regard to social policy and the Working Time Directive, I agree with you: we must be in favour of national diversity but, if we must draw inspiration from one model, I should very much like to draw my inspiration from the Scandinavian model.
On the subject of the single market, now: I hope that you will agree with me that competition also needs to be fair and balanced. In other words, the single market is also built on common social standards, and thus forms part of the very spirit of the Treaties.
As regards the budget, lastly, I believe that we are encountering a real credibility problem in terms both of revenue and of spending – Mr Barroso and the European Parliament have sufficiently alluded to this. For the European Union of 25 to succeed and for us to express our ongoing solidarity towards the new Member States and to carry out an external policy with sufficient resources – possibly more than 5% of the budget - presupposes an increase in the Community budget.
Above all – and this will be my final point – we must leave to one side a budgetary debate characterised by an increase in national self-interest. In the mid-term review requested by the Commission and Parliament, the Presidency and the entire European Council must make the political commitment to propose a European mechanism providing the European Union with real independent resources for the future of the Union’s policies. Armed with such a commitment, it will perhaps be possible for us to convince our citizens of the usefulness of European policy."@en1
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