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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, whilst there are those who assert that Europe’s governments are steadily dismembering the compromise that the Convention laboriously put together on the constitution, others maintain the legitimacy of their modifying the Convention’s draft. For those who were there at Amsterdam and Nice, the Brussels summit is all about . There is, in any case, no denying the fact that representatives of the national parliaments had a hand in the consensus that the Convent painstakingly hammered out. The signals sent out from Brussels put me in a thoughtful frame of mind. Europe’s governments may well not have made any headway, but they affirm that they are heading in the right direction. The German Federal Chancellor, Mr Schröder, allows the French President Chirac to represent him. In Europe, we know that nothing can be done without Paris and Berlin, but was it really necessary to put on such a show of strength to deliver a rebuff to all those who warn of a Franco-German directorate? Finally, there is the growth initiative, with a lot of paper and no action ever since the Essen resolution – as long ago, let me emphasise, as 1994. What this means is that a Quick Start programme is to be put together in time for the December summit, listing the TEN projects that are to be completed. It leaves open the question as to how much money the EU will be chipping in towards the TEN projects, as too, though, is the question of whether the Stability Pact supplants the Growth Pact or vice versa. I would have thought that growth is impossible without stability, for, at the end of the day, today’s debts are tomorrow’s taxes."@en1
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