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"Mr President, I presume that the leader of the UK Independence Party’s obsession with fraudsters is because of his own party’s intimate relationship with fraud and fraudsters.
To return to the main point of the debate: clearly the Lisbon Treaty cannot come into force on 1 January as we hoped. We have to wait for the Irish Government to tell us how they think we should proceed. But meanwhile other states should exercise their sovereign right to ratify this Treaty. My own Member State will finish its ratification today in accordance with its long-standing and widely respected parliamentary tradition.
Meanwhile globalisation continues apace and with it the insecurity that it generates, which we saw a lot of evidence of in the Irish referendum. The EU is a political process designed to deal with those issues so that is what we should be doing: looking at the Millennium Development Goals, at climate change, at migration. What action? That is why I am going to avoid too much introverted institutional navel-gazing and think about action to improve the lot of our citizens.
I have one question though for the Slovenian presidency: could you tell me what are the implications of the Irish vote for Croatia’s accession to the European Union?"@en1
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