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"en.20061025.4.3-037"2
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"Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, Finland is presiding over the European Union at a particularly difficult juncture, since Heads of State or Government are very much at odds with each other about the European Union’s future. What is worse, some of them do not even know in what direction they want to take it.
A prestigious guest, such as President Bush, or more recently, President Putin, may well, then, prove to be the answer. Given its past, though, Finland is probably the best placed Member State to enter into open and in-depth dialogue with Russia.
I should therefore like to congratulate the President on how he has guided the informal summit and also on the unanimity he managed to generate, both in terms of energy policy and in terms of Russia. I have to get one thing off my chest, though: 25 plus 2 Heads of Government and State all crowded together around the leader of one superpower! I still think it is a little saddening. It is my dearest wish for the EU’s Heads of Government and State to finally get the European Union to grow up."@en1
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