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"Mr President, it seems to me that it is very difficult to evaluate a Presidency which set itself very ambitious objectives. Perhaps one of the problems of this Presidency was those ambitious objectives, and alongside this there was the fact that the Presidency came at the time when the Union’s institutional system was changed by the provisions of the Treaty of Lisbon. Among the positive aspects of the Presidency, I would include the fact that the Europe 2020 strategy was, after all, prepared and adopted, although there does also exist the fear that it will, in the future, share the fate of the Lisbon Strategy – but the Spanish Presidency will not have any influence over this. Unfortunately, it is apparent that in external policy, Spain was not up to the task. The European Union-United States summit was not entirely successful, and also in matters which interest me – the Eastern Partnership – no progress was made at all. Even by taking advantage of the good offices of the new commissioner, Mr Füle, it did not prove possible, in my opinion, to move a single step forward in the matter of lifting or relaxing the visa regime for Ukraine, which could have been a kind of starting point, the start of something specific in the area of the Eastern Partnership. Of course, Mrs Ashton should have been doing something in this area, but this, too, was lacking. We cannot accept a situation in which the European Union’s objectives depend on which country currently holds the Presidency. If it is a Presidency from a Member State in the south, it works on objectives related to the south, and if it is from the east, it works on different objectives."@en1
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