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"Mr President, thank you for that pronunciation. Stubb turns to ‘Stub’ and I think that next year it will be ‘Schtub’, so it is all going in the right direction.
I have three brief points to make. Firstly, I would like to thank and congratulate the Finnish Presidency, especially four Ministers, and then a group of people. The four Ministers are Prime Minister Vanhanen – I think he did a fantastic job; Minister Lehtomäki, who did a fantastic job; Foreign Minister Tuomioja, who did a great job; and then there is one Minister who is absent, Mr Pekkarinen. Most of all I would like to thank the civil servants, especially Ambassador Eikka Kosonen. We all know that the machinery does not work without the civil service.
If you were to put pluses and minuses on the Presidency, I think the pluses would far exceed the minuses – Lebanon, the Services Directive, REACH, research, enlargement, climate change and Schengen. I think you did a very good job on that. I should like to say to Mr Schulz that the last person I want lecturing me on the Services Directive is a German Socialist.
As regards alcohol tax, I think there is a minus, but as a consumer I do not really mind the fact that you failed to raise alcohol tax.
To finish off, I would like to say that the Finnish Presidency was cool, calm and collected. If you could personify things, I would say that you, Mrs Lehtomäki, were Mrs Cool. Mr Vanhanen, you were Mr Calm, and I think you, Mr Tuomioja, were Mr Collected."@en1
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