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"Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Europe is hoping that you will meet with success, with what will be a success for us all. Although we know how difficult your task is and how intransigently certain Member States are behaving, we very much hope that you will succeed in getting a mandate for the Intergovernmental Conference, and you have, in any case, our support.
We German liberals see three core issues as having priority. Firstly, we do not want the compromise on the institutional issues and the voting procedures to be negotiated all over again. We also see that as involving doing away with the pillar structure, and if you call for that, you knowingly take on board the fact that there will be no successor regulation to Nice before 2009, which, in terms of the single Europe project, is not merely irresponsible, but positively destructive.
Secondly, we need a European Foreign Minister and a European External Affairs Service appointed from among the Council, the Commission and the Member States, with the foreign minister not to be an ornament to the EU, but its mouthpiece; someone capable of taking decisions and backed up by the common political will of the capitals when things get tough. In exactly the same way as Mr Leinen, I found what you had to say at the beginning of our debate encouraging.
Thirdly, we would like to see strong protection for fundamental rights – something that is self-evident to Liberals. We know about the problems you are having with the retention of the Charter in the text, but, Mr President-in-Office, we urge you not to relent, for, as you yourself have said, the German Presidency will be judged by what it achieves in taking the Treaty forward, and I can predict that this House will see the debate on a two-speed Europe kick off with a bang if individual Member States refuse to give you a proper mandate, and there will be no stopping things then; the debate will then be one that we did not want, but that arises from objective necessity."@en1
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