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"Mr President, President of the Commission, President-in-Office of the Council, ladies and gentlemen, looking at the changes the Reform Treaty makes in such fields as migration, agriculture, and police and justice, and at the decisions regarding the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the euro area and the social market economy – which becomes an objective for the first time – and also regarding intergovernmental solidarity on energy, it is apparent to me that this Treaty builds on the results of the Convention and the June Summit, and gives us more clout and a great deal more democracy as political institutions. From now on, the Union will be better equipped to provide the answers people expect of it, both internally and externally.
In the latter respect, I should like to congratulate the Council Presidency on its setting of the agenda. President-in-Office, by letting your summit not only decide on the Treaty, but also exchange ideas about
problem of our generation – globalisation – you have sent out an important signal. When all is said and done, it is not the institutions – institutional navel-gazing – but their policies that are important.
This brings me to a question to the President of the Commission. Do you think that genuinely bold policymaking is possible in the period from now until the final ratification of the Treaty, or does ratification make you fear that you cannot offend people and that you must confine yourselves to ‘cautious’ matters? In other words, can the Europe of specific projects continue in 2008?
Finally, two more brief questions to the Council. President-in-Office, have you asked the Heads of State or Government for a personal political commitment to bringing ratification to a successful conclusion in their respective countries? I very much hope so. Secondly, when will a coordinated text of these treaties appear? After all, a treaty that includes the objectives of transparency and simplification must be readable, if only out of respect for the people. Thank you, Mr President, and thank you in anticipation to the President-in-Office and the Commission President for their answers to my questions."@en1
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