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"Mr President, Mr Dehaene’s report gives me mixed feelings. On the one hand, I welcome the fact that he occasionally feels the need to analyse things in earnest, and here I refer to paragraphs 14 and 26, where he refers to the dominance of the European Council and the problems associated with the new presidency system within the Council. On the other hand, I am disappointed with this report because the rapporteur’s analysis is not focused throughout. In particular, in the last 12 paragraphs, where he discusses external policy, all the institutional uncertainties have been massaged away, although the institutional consequences of this dual role are not entirely known. Therefore, I cannot understand how the rapporteur has come to the general assessment that the new system will entail stronger institutional balance in the Union. I recognise that the Treaty of Lisbon constitutes an improvement in certain areas. However, this does not detract from the fact that it is precisely the uncertain consequences of this Treaty which will prove to be Lisbon’s Achilles’ heel for the Union’s institutional balance, something that the rapporteur has failed to pick up."@en1
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