Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-12-14-Speech-3-012"
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"Thank you, Mr Watson. For the moment, we would not be so much boxing shadows as boxing a void, because the representative of the Council is not yet here. Nevertheless, I have been told that he is on his way and that there are traffic problems. I therefore assume that he will be here in a few minutes.
With regard to your request for the Council to refer in its speech to the new proposal which is apparently going to be made public today, I must inform you that yesterday, at the lunch to mark the end of their Presidency, I asked the British Presidency to do that, since it would appear strange to Parliament that a new proposal that is going to be made public today should not be included in the debate, since it would surely be a merely formal debate.
I did not receive a guarantee but I did note a degree of understanding that I imagine will in practice lead, at least, to a foretaste of what the Presidency is going to say later. If that is not the case, I certainly believe that Parliament would have good reason to feel under-valued.
Furthermore, I do not believe that we should suspend the sitting now, Mr Watson, since I know that the Minister will be with us very soon. I hope that the common sense and sense of humour of which the British are so proud will help them in their speech and that they can tell us what is going to happen later."@en1
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