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"Mr President, Mr Nicolaï, ladies and gentlemen, I hope that Mr Nicolaï will not leave the Chamber this time, as he did during the last debate on the EU’s relations with Russia. Mr Barroso, who has already left, said that the December Council would be a great step towards the building of a more prosperous Europe. Judging from Mr Nicolaï’s comments, however, it is more likely to be a small and timid step, not a great one.
I am not the only one who feels that the Council is working without any kind of serious vision and without any long-term strategy, that it lurches from one event to another, and that it merely reacts to problems without any long-term plan of how it should act to avoid them. This lack of strategy is a fundamental error, and it gives rise to a great many problems. Much is now being said by the Council on the subject of Ukraine, and many of its comments are entirely relevant. Yet if the Council had stated clearly a few months ago, as part of its future strategy, that Ukraine would join the European Union, not today, not tomorrow and not the day after tomorrow, but maybe at the same time as Turkey, then the current situation in Ukraine would not have arisen, as the Ukrainian Government would not have been able to afford to rig the elections to such an extent.
There is one thing I should like to thank the absent Mr Barroso for, namely that he was in favour of a larger budget for the European Union. An increase of EUR 114 billion over seven years will promote the development of both the EU and the new Member States."@en1
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