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"I am totally aware of the problems that all this has caused for British farmers. This issue has been going on for a long time now, long before I came to the Commission. The decision that was taken by the French authorities on 1 October is a decision that has had to be dealt with as best one can in the meantime. Since then the one feature that can be pointed to is that there has not been any indecision on the part of the Commission or on the part of those who are involved in trying to resolve this difficult issue.
I have said on a number of occasions – and I have said it again here today – that I believe that the application of steady diplomacy, cool heads with firm determination, will make more progress than knee-jerk reactions resulting in the Commission ending up in the Court of Justice in Luxembourg two years hence. It will not do the farmers of the UK any good, in my view, if the ban remains in place in the intervening two-year period.
I am firmly convinced that the view I take, the line that I have adopted, the decisions that I have made, reinforced by my colleagues in the Commission this morning, are the correct decision. I look forward to a speedy resolution of this issue.
I have mentioned on a number of occasions over the last weekend in various interviews that it is my firm wish that this matter be resolved quickly and diplomatically. Sometimes it is difficult to achieve both of those at the same time. That is what I am trying to do. That is what I am trying to achieve. Allowing me a week until Tuesday to do that is not unreasonable."@en1
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