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"Mr President, President-in-Office of the Council
Commissioner, everyone is taking up their respective positions and the negotiations are taking shape. There are two possible solutions. Either nothing is changed or everything is. In the light of the possibility of negotiations being reopened, everyone is hoping to improve everything and running the risk of ruining everything. I am aware that in this role-play, some people, including some Members of Parliament are ready to invoke God as a way of obtaining more concessions on other subjects. I will let them make their own decisions on this. I do not share this approach to organising our earthly life.
Everyone is coming to this forum with the 10% they want to change. I also have 10% I would like to change. I would like to see more qualified majority voting on social and fiscal matters. This would be the only way to put an end to tax havens and dumping. I would also like to see real coordination of economic policies and majority decisions in the field of foreign affairs. President-in-Office of the Council
there may actually be another way of tackling these negotiations. I shall now test it out. We need to establish what we are determined to retain, what we are not prepared to give up. I would now like to outline five such issues I am not willing to compromise on.
The first relates to the fact that I think it is essential to retain the option of those countries engaged in strengthened cooperation to use the enabling clause. This is a technical point but it is important.
The second issue concerns the status of the Charter. In my view it could be improved but not a great deal. It is therefore best to leave well alone.
The third issue is that of God. God has been left out of the scope of the Constitution. Unlike Mr Elmar Brok, I want God to be left where he belongs. This means he should be left out of the Constitution.
The fourth issue is the legal basis for public services. This is a crucial point. I do not want any concessions to be made on this.
Lastly, there is the issue of price stability. The ECB seems to have taken up the offensive on this again. In this regard, I believe the consensus that has almost been reached on Article 3 on the objectives of the European Union is a reasonable one. I therefore propose that God and price stability are left out of all this. I wish you good luck.
President-in-Office of the Council, allow me to suggest that transparency is the key to success. If you publish the proposals made by all the parties concerned, you will enjoy more widespread support than you could ever gain with the wheeling and dealing between the representatives of the Heads of State or Government."@en1
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