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"Mr President, I think this is the first time in seven and a half years in this House that I have had to say publicly that my speech is very personal and does not echo the views of my group. There are other very legitimate opinions in the Group of the United European Left. But I warn you that it has been difficult to reach a position.
In any event, I would firstly like to thank Mrs Miguélez for her work. Initially, she presented a draft report which seemed to me to be perfectly balanced and which I believe should have served as a basis, with the contribution of all the members of the Committee on Fisheries and with the spirit of Mrs Miguélez, for supplementing what she presented to us. But 400 amendments were presented, the majority of which I believe were motivated by exclusively national positions, which do not contribute to the consolidation of a common policy, one of the few common policies, but quite the opposite.
Mrs Miguélez, after these 400 amendments, made a superhuman effort to present some new compromises. I withdrew. In this respect, I believe that she did good and even admirable work, but I believe that the final result, the 400 amendments, on which I do not believe we were very generous with her compromises in many respects, is not very coherent. There are strong contrasts, in some respects we go into many details and in others we hardly deal with the general issues. But, in any event, it is very important to me that I say this, and I will do so very frankly: there are amendments which, in my view, represent fundamental modifications to the Treaty, at a time when the implementation of the euro is strengthening the free movement of people. It also expresses the will to make progress with the common fisheries policy and strengthen it. Furthermore, one has the sensation that sometimes we are asking for nationalisation of controls of Community waters, while at the same time asking for Community controls in third country waters. And sometimes one has the feeling – excuse my frankness – that regionalisation is being used to talk about other things.
I am going to advise my group not to vote against the final result. I do not believe that Mrs Miguélez would deserve that and, in any event, I would repeat once again my spirit of cooperation and I thank you once again for your admirable efforts to achieve a balanced result which, in my view, has not been achieved."@en1
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