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"en.20000412.4.3-143"2
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"Madam President, this is a strange, uncomfortable and schizophrenic report. Parts of it are clearly crafted as helpful suggestions to the IGC; other parts form a list of pious hopes and hopeful wishes which are certain to be rejected by the Conference. How much of this schizoid quality reflects the positions of the two rapporteurs is hard to estimate. If so, I am sure that I can attribute the better parts to my friend and colleague Mr Dimitrakopoulos and the more unusual parts to Mr Leinen.
However, the majority of my Conservative colleagues have voted to reject the report and will vote accordingly in this House. The Conservative delegation regards many of the ideas in the report as centralising, syndicalist, unnecessary and backward-looking. Instead of examining new, flexible and radical approaches to an enlarged Union in the global market, the message of this report is: carry on regardless down the road from Maastricht and Amsterdam!
Nevertheless, in rejecting this report the Conservative delegation shows it too has a schizophrenic quality, since it therefore rejects the excellent amendment by Mr Duff, to give a legal opt-out to Member States, and that of my friend Mr Perry and others, to enable Parliament to put public money where its mouth is by saving wasteful expenditure entailed in the absurdity of these Strasbourg sessions. That is the nature of democracy and democratic decisions. They too are often strange, uncomfortable and schizophrenic, but they remain the best we have all the same."@en1
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