Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-06-20-Speech-2-045"

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dcterms:Date	"2006-06-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Council report and Commission statement: European Council meeting (Brussels, 15-16 June 2006) – Statement by the Presidency-in-Office of the Council: Work of the Austrian Presidency2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060620.6.2-045"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-06-20-Speech-2-0462
lpv:speaker	lp:Alexander Stubb2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr Chairman, I would like to make three points. The first is that I think the Austrian Presidency was a very successful one. In order to have a successful presidency you need three things: one, you need to prepare well; two, you need to be objective; and three, you need a little bit of luck. And I think you had all of those three things, Chancellor Schüssel. You all know that it is not the presidency that makes the agenda, it is the agenda that makes the presidency. If I can make a recommendation, in 1999, you co-chaired with Finland. You will do it again. Neither one of us made it to the World Cup; perhaps we can try sending out a joint team the next time around, because we seem to work quite well together. My second point is that I think you and the Presidency have pushed the constitutional debate into a new phase. You say, ‘we go from reflection to action’; I say we go from reflection to analysis. We will get a proposal during the German and Portuguese presidencies, and we might even do a little bit of renegotiation during the Slovenian and the French presidencies. But, may I make just one careful proposal – and I am doing so under the close observation of my group chairman and of Mr Daul. We had the Dutch Presidency pushing through the Maastricht Treaty and the Amsterdam Treaty, and the Nice Treaty being pushed through by the French Presidency. If some people want to change the name of the constitution and we finish those negotiations in 2008 during the French Presidency, why do we not call it the Treaty of Strasbourg? How is that for symbolism? I am just floating the idea. Think about it! The final point I wanted to make is that I think we need to move from a time of euro-pessimism towards euro-optimism. Let us stop whining and blaming. Let us start working and looking at the bigger picture. We are actually doing quite well. With these words I would like to thank the Austrian Presidency and welcome the Finnish Presidency."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(Applause)"1 "Alexander Stubb (PPE-DE ). –"1

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