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"Mr Leterme, I hope that, by now, you will have understood that you have the opportunity of scoring a very early goal. I am, of course, talking about financial supervision.
You will have noted that the overwhelming majority of this House is in favour of setting up a European watchdog for the financial markets, the players of which are also, by and large, European.
Until now, the Council’s position has, roughly speaking, been one of maintaining the status quo, as if nothing had happened since 2008. National self-interest appears to be the only thing that takes precedence over the model with which we here are unfortunately all too familiar, of …
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meaning what we do ourselves, we do better.
If we want an operational agreement on 1 January 2011, then the Council will have to move strongly and quickly. If it means the Council voting by qualified majority, as Mr Verhofstadt was suggesting, then so be it. We did not adopt the Treaty of Lisbon to then immediately lapse back into the dictatorship of unanimity. Given the circumstances, we have the opportunity to have a full-time rotating Presidency, as has been said. You therefore have everything you need to prove the pessimists wrong and to make a success of this Presidency."@en1
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