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"Madam President, Commissioners, the President of the Commission, who has discourteously failed to attend this debate, has justified the correction of his programme in an extraordinary fashion by quoting an anonymous philosopher from his country who defended truth. Since the infallibility of the Commission is not laid down in the Treaties, I believe that it would be more appropriate to quote the old proverb ‘ [to rectify is for the wise]’. The Commission has rectified two points that are important for next year. Firstly, the President of the Commission began to speak, I would not say passionately, but at least with a degree of enthusiasm, about the European Constitution. I welcome that. Secondly, the Commission has introduced immigration as an urgent issue. I would like to refer more specifically, however, to an issue that is very important and that cuts across everything we are talking about, and which the President of the Commission has not mentioned: the need to re-direct the Doha Round of development negotiations. It is an absolutely crucial issue, which has a very direct influence on Europe's policy towards globalisation, and about which not a single word has been uttered. Are we going to continue along the line proposed by Commissioner Mandelson? Is the bilateral going to be given priority over the multilateral? How are we going to coordinate this issue with the environment policy and the human rights policy? I believe that this is an issue that the Commission must take into account and that it has not mentioned today."@en1

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