Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-05-17-Speech-3-050"
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"Mr President, it is said that a bad compromise leaves some people happy and some people sad, while a good compromise leaves everybody pretty well unsatisfied. It would appear, to my group at least, that according to that definition this is a very good compromise.
The question for my group, however, is whether this interinstitutional agreement answers the big questions facing Europe at the moment. Our judgement is that it does not. It looks increasingly clear that we are in a minority, but we will be voting against this deal on the grounds that we could do so much better for our citizens.
This interinstitutional agreement locks us into never-ending wrangling between the net contributors, the net recipients, old Europe, new Europe, the Council and Parliament, at a time when we must be one Europe or we risk being no Europe.
We are not without ideas. The Sapir report contained a number of ideas that merited consideration. They have been put to one side in favour of continuing as we are, when Europe deserves so much better. On those grounds, my group will be voting against."@en1
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