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"Mr Verhofstadt, thank you for taking such a pro-active line. I agree with you that the period of reflection is likely to prove fruitless. We need more. We should continue the referendums, even though there is the real risk that at the end of the ride, we will not make the four-fifths majority.
I welcome the idea of using specific projects as means of continuing to put Europe on the map. In fact, this Parliament has taken the lead in that respect by making Europe more social, rejecting the Port Directive and amending the Bolkestein Directive.
I am, moreover, surprised that the day before yesterday, the Belgian Government abstained during the Council vote on this Bolkestein Directive. Take Europe further by means of specific projects? We are all for it, Prime Minister, but we need funds, and we have settled on financial perspectives that are very tight, absolutely below par and that amount, in fact, to an abdication.
That, Prime Minister, is where the European Parliament, the Commission and the Council all went wrong. We acted like
and that is something for which we will pay the price in time to come."@en1
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