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"Mr President, Commissioner, honourable Members, I would like to thank you for this debate, because I am sure it will help me release the Gordian knot tied on 28 November 2008. It was then that the blocking minority came into being. As you know, since that time we have now had six presidencies, and beginning with the French Presidency, each of them has passed this difficult problem on, like a hot potato, to the next one. I would like to say very clearly that the Polish Presidency does not want to share this issue with the next presidency. We will make every effort for this problem to be resolved as soon as possible.
I also want to point out that as a politician I am a little ashamed that the blocking group consists of Member States which formerly benefited very substantially from market intervention instruments and when stocks were high saw nothing wrong in giving them to those who were most in need. Today, when there are no intervention stocks, we have made this into an artificial legal problem. However, the Commissioner is saying clearly that this is neither a legal problem, nor is it a financial problem, it is a problem of a political decision. Indeed, you have adopted the ‘six pack’ here today to secure the financial situation of the big banks. Are those six governments not ashamed that no decision has been made about small change for 18 million people?
I am pleased that this is a public debate here, today. I did not have my head in the sand last week when I raised the subject in public debate in Council, so that European society would have a clear idea of who is blocking this decision and why, and now I trust, Mr President, I trust that after this debate the consciences of the governments which are blocking the decision will be reawakened."@en1
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