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"Mr President, Madam Federal Chancellor, Mr President of the Commission, we, the Group of the European People’s Party, and the German CDU/CSU Members of this House in particular, rejoice in your presidency of the Council and in your splendid programme, which is an ambitious one, and I am sure that, by the end of your six months in the presidency, it will have been achieved. With that end in mind, you have, at any rate, our unconditional support.
I am sure that you will succeed in reinvigorating the spirit of trust to which Mr Schulz referred earlier, although he did, to my surprise, omit someone from his list, namely the former Federal Chancellor Mr Schröder, by whose foreign policy this spirit of trust in Europe was in fact destroyed. We are right behind you!
I would also ask that there should be no debates in this House on domestic policies such as nuclear energy or schools – such things are irrelevant. Instead, we want to support the German Presidency in its priorities of moving the constitutional treaty forward and revising the way Europe makes its laws. I also welcome the proposal for discontinuity; it is right that the European Parliament – and the Commission too – should have a greater part to play, but it was, in the past, often because of the Council that proposals for legislation took as long as ten years before appearing again above the surface.
We are glad, Madam Federal Chancellor, that you have set yourself the particular goal of prioritising Europe’s external policy problems and the problems of energy policy during your presidency of the Council. I am sure that you will succeed in this, and we, in any case, are behind you.
It may, of course, be the case that, as Mr Schulz says, Europe is a model of peace, of prosperity, of how to run an economy. If it is to be developed as a social model, then we will have to give some thought to where the European Union’s powers lie. It is the Member States who should discharge their responsibilities where matters are within their remit, no more and no less.
We rejoice and wish you much success."@en1
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