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"Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Mr President of the Commission, the greatest task for the European Council in a week’s time is to create clarity, more clarity and yet more clarity. The worst decision that could be taken in a week’s time would be to continue in the same old way, in which clarity is hardly the watchword. With a whole series of referenda, there is a risk of setting a self-perpetuating spiral of ‘no’ votes in motion. I should like to say that clarity is the fundamental requirement.
What, moreover, I fear, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, is that, if no clarity is brought about, the real choice we shall face will be that between being satisfied with the Treaty of Nice and gaining a little more time; and, if I have to choose between being satisfied with the Treaty of Nice and gaining a little more time to think through how we resolve the situation, I prefer to have more time. We cannot live with the Treaty of Nice. We cannot solve the problems using the Treaty of Nice. We must have this Constitutional Treaty in place and, if more time is needed, then that is what I prefer to have.
Mr President, we can hold all the conventions and present all the treaty documents we like, but that will not help if we do not tackle the real problems in Europe. In the course of two years, this Socialist Group in the European Parliament and the European Socialist Party, of which I am President, have presented clear calls for Europe to invest in more new jobs and to unite behind a common response to what many ordinary people see as the threats of globalisation. Our greatest task now, under the British Presidency – and I really do think we have received some very exciting signals from Prime Minister Tony Blair – is to combine people’s need for social protection with new jobs in a globalised world.
I also very much support the call by the President-in-Office of the Council and by the President of the Commission for us to have the financial perspectives in place in a week’s time. That would be the most important signal of all that we are not incapable of making decisions but that we take people’s concerns seriously."@en1
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