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"Madam President, welcome, Mrs Hedegaard. You have said many good things, and there are many good things in the communication. I am going to focus on the things that I disagree with.
I disagree greatly with a strategy that is based on accepting at this early stage that we will not get an agreement in Mexico. My question to you is therefore whether that is something you have simply decided, or is it a mandate that you have been given – and if so, who gave you this mandate? Is it the Heads of State? Or is it the codecision procedure, or what? I hope that this strategy can be revised. What good can it do to say ‘What if a huge momentum is built up and there are high expectations, and then it all comes to nought – how could we then explain two fiascos?’. Listen, that is not something you need be concerned about. The US and China and others will probably ensure that there are no great expectations of Mexico. The role of the EU should not be to talk down expectations – the EU’s role should be to talk up expectations. If we say even before the summit has begun: ‘Listen, we are willing to accept that there will not be a particularly great agreement’ and so on, then you banish any chance of success before you have even started. It sets a whole new starting point and the agreement will only be the worse because of it."@en1
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