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"Mr President, I cannot say congratulations to the Commissioner, but I have three questions.
Why are you in such a rush, Commissioner, to devise new rules? Why do you not follow your predecessor, Mr Solbes, who thought that the Stability and Growth Pact was perfectly alright. I think we must wait until the new Commission begins. It is the Commission that is to administer and oversee these rules. We also have Mr Zalm back in his seat as the Netherlands’ representative, so that we might again hear his normally tough position on this issue, which I of course love. So let us wait a little.
Why is the time not being used to discuss the Commission’s role in the Stability and Growth Pact: the issue of whether a warning can be given without the finance ministers having to approve it, as well as the issue of its having been possible to contrive for those countries that act contrary to the Stability and Growth Pact generally to have voting rights in the Council?
I should also like to ask the chairman of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, who has unfortunately left his seat, why someone does not get hold of Mr Schroeder and tell him that he should observe the rules? A flexible Stability and Growth Pact will not, of course, help him.
Mr Schroeder has the problem of not keeping to the Stability and Growth Pact, and flexible rules will not help him, so make sure now that he is made to follow the rules. What Germany needs are major structural reforms."@en1
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