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"Mr President, one reason why this House has welcomed you with so much applause, Mr Steinmeier, is that you, during the European Union’s fiftieth birthday celebrations, like Mrs Merkel, set before us the positive objectives of this revived constitutional process, yet, nevertheless, people in this House keep on asking themselves how and when this diplomatic process centring on the mini-treaty or some other treaty, being currently closed, will be re-opened. Good objectives of the kind repeatedly held out by the Council Presidency can in fact endure the gaze of the public, so why, if we have such good things planned, do we keep on preventing them from being involved on a long-term basis, when it is long overdue that they should be? By the next summit at the latest it must be made plain just how this consistent exclusion of the public from the constitutional process is to be brought to an end.
I also want to say something about a specific policy area, namely climate policy, which is currently being discussed in Europe primarily in association with the G8 Summit, and the June summit on which can only, in my eyes, be considered a success if what is done internationally does not fall short of what was agreed on Europe’s behalf in March. The goal of a two-degree rise in temperature, the acknowledgement of the need to achieve a global 30% reduction in CO2, and that the UN is the body best suited to mutual consultation on the subject are, to my mind, fundamental preconditions. If George Bush, in Heiligendamm, prevents, among other things, that sort of accommodation, I think the European Heads of State who are going to be there would be wrong to expect anything of it; I see the results from the March summit as being worth a good deal more and believe that they should be enforced, for George Bush, the President of the United States, will shortly be yesterday’s man."@en1
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