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". Parliament has just voted for a resolution on the Nice Summit in which: 1 – It does not deal clearly or in depth with any of the issues in which there were major divergences among the Member States in the work leading up to the IGC, leaving all the main Amsterdam left-overs without any prospects even now. Thus Parliament waives its right to influence, shuts its mouth and remains silent for the sake of party, State and government loyalties, forgetting its obligations to the people. 2 – Despite everything, it ensures an advantage – not as tiny as it might seem – for the less populous States, which can always take advantage of Parliament’s silence at the choices of those States that seek to strengthen their institutional power in all the Community bodies. From this standpoint, the large States are blocked by the rest and cannot drag Parliament into supporting their views, using it against us in the future architecture of the institutions. 3 – It demonstrates that the united efforts of the small countries’ delegations have succeeded in drawing a political trump card from the others in next week’s debates in Nice. Although we have not won, we have achieved a result in this resolution, which does not leave us defeated on the battlefield. Sometimes silence is a victory… 4 – This explains why, as silence is not innocent, it can justify a vote in favour."@en1

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