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"I like Portugal and the Portuguese.
Mr President, Commissioner, may I give you a very deeply felt piece of unambiguous advice? Starting in May 2007, when Portugal will probably have the Council Presidency, history is once again offering you a historic open window for the European project.
Yes, I am talking about Mr Duff’s Plan B and a lot more besides. You will have another chance to fit this European thing we have in front of us together in a meaningful way. I mean the very big thing. You may be able to lift it and go down in history with it, or you may fail completely. But please look now at the contributions that are really being made to the debate on the Constitution and the positioning of the European Union. Try to get out of the old thought patterns that got us into all these problems. Look across the wide ocean! Think a little like Vasco da Gama – and I am not talking only about Chindia – and then fit it together so that we can really take advantage of this historic opportunity, which will present itself again, before the European project simply falls flat or implodes.
I am curious to see what you will be able to say to us after May 2007. You ought to be telling us now that you will have something to say then, because otherwise it will be the same old trick again and that will quite certainly result in failure."@en1
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