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"en.20051214.6.3-044"2
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in the end Tony Blair has decided to don the robes of the Sheriff of Nottingham, with his drastic cuts to the budget and hard-line defence of the privilege of the UK rebate.
Unless there are last-minute changes, London’s proposal is liable to set the seal on a resounding failure. In actual fact, we are facing a much deeper crisis: Mr Blair has simply chosen to exacerbate the clash, to show up Europe’s weakness and to bring its contradictions to the boil; he has simply highlighted the problems of a Europe torn apart by self interest, unwilling to make any effort to support enlargement, and unable to genuinely face up to the challenges of the third millennium or to assert itself as a unitary political entity on the world stage.
Italy, as a founding member of the European Union, has always played its part and has always been willing to make sacrifices for the sake of the future. As a net contributor, it has paid 25% of the UK rebate for 20 years. Now, however, we have reached a crossroads: we cannot pay for the costs of enlargement all by ourselves. This time we cannot be the only ones to step back."@en1
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