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Mr President, as Mr Swoboda has just pointed out, I support one part of Mr Cohn-Bendit’s request and oppose the other. I think he is right; the Commission’s behaviour is certainly remarkable, to put it politely. Secondly, it is true that the situation in the Council is confusing: some Member States share the Commission’s opinion and others do not.
We have a similar situation in this House. It is true that we need a discussion with the Commission – even though it has already pressed ahead with this many times before against the recommendations of Parliament and even of some members of the Council – and we support the call for a Commission statement to this end. The second part is the resolution. I have read the request by the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance very carefully, and Mr Cohn-Bendit’s justification related more to the election campaign than to GM maize, which was very interesting. The Verts/ALE Group also requests a procedure to vote out the Commission – a vote of no confidence in the Commission. Yet so far-reaching is this step that we believe the matter must first be carefully examined, which is why we support the debate – indeed! In addition, there is a specialist committee that should be dealing with the resolution; it should present us with a motion for a resolution at one of the coming plenary sittings that is properly prepared rather than cobbled together quickly this week."@en1
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