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"Mr President, we are in the process of summing up the six-month Austrian Presidency. What exactly has it achieved? It boasts that it has achieved a compromise on the Services Directive. Yet instead of guaranteeing genuine free movement of services within the EU, the regulation that has come into being is incomplete and imprecise. Europe’s chance of seeing an improvement in the external competitiveness of its economy has been squandered.
Secondly, the Presidency has brought about the adoption of the new Financial Perspective for the period 2007-2013. One of the consequences of this Financial Perspective as it stands is ever-increasing cuts to spending under the EU budget on key objectives, such as territorial cohesion and the creation of a level playing field in terms of development opportunities for the poorest regions.
Finally, let us turn to the ill-fated draft Constitutional Treaty, which has been a dead duck for some time now. The Austrian Chancellor said during the summit, and has confirmed today, that the main content of the Treaty must remain intact. Such a statement disregards the will of the citizens of at least two EU Member States. It is likely that the longest-lasting and most spectacular outcome of the Austrian Presidency will be multicoloured barcodes on mass-produced EU knick-knacks."@en1
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