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"Madam President, Minister, Commissioner, I must begin by expressing thanks, first to the Commission, which has just acknowledged that it carried out negotiations or based its approach on a report approved by this Parliament, and this thanks extends to Mr Kremer, who has always kept the Committee on Constitutional Affairs informed as to the state of negotiations; and secondly to the Counsel for having taken an interest in this matter and for bringing it up at the next meeting of the Council, next week.
Leading on from this double thank you, I have to ask the following questions: why are we debating this matter in Parliament now? Why have we included it on the agenda? The answer is because we are deeply concerned by the deadlock at the heart of the Council.
This is an agreement that benefits EU citizens and, when it is adopted, it will afford them a higher level of protection of their rights than the EU itself currently guarantees them, yet EU citizens are the ones who have limited ability to defend their rights because the process is making no progress at the Council.
Many negotiations have taken place between the Commission and the Council and the fundamental issues have been thrashed out. Two remain, as the President of the Council has indicated: the issue relating to foreign policy and the other issue that has been referred to regarding the effectiveness of the common position of EU members in decisions under the convention.
Let us face the problems with a mind to resolving them, however, let us not use them as a means of deadlock so that the process makes no progress. It is more than two years since the Treaty of Lisbon was signed and it is time that it was applied to this point also."@en1
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