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"en.20031218.4.4-105"2
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"Mr President, on behalf of the Socialist Group, I wish to announce that we supported the resolution adopted on the IGC, and we take this as an appeal to the Irish presidency to get moving. This is not an issue on which we can afford to wait indefinitely. The Intergovernmental Conference needs to be kicked back into life.
We have focused on the Irish presidency because the ball is currently in its court. But we will be coming back to this in the New Year and looking very carefully at what progress is being made. If there is, in the view of Parliament – and certainly in the view of my group – insufficient progress, we will look towards adopting a further resolution, one which will spell out possible initiatives to be taken by this Parliament in conjunction with national parliaments, and also consequences for our own parliamentary business, because we cannot continue with business-as-usual.
The IGC needs to come to a conclusion. We need the European Constitution; we cannot let it be kicked into the long grass for months and years ahead. Business-as-usual cannot go on indefinitely: we must bring this issue to a solution."@en1
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