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"Mr President, Chancellor, Germany is currently in charge of the European Union, the European Parliament and the G8. As if that were not enough, it has now emerged that Germany plans to impose its line on the Portuguese and Slovenian Presidencies, which will follow its own. This involves adopting a single line in relations with Russia, at a time when presidential and parliamentary elections are to take place there. It amounts to toeing the German line.
Consider the implications this will have for us, ladies and gentlemen. Germany is to renegotiate the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement on behalf of the Union. The agreement is now to be more pragmatic than regulatory in nature, and there is a danger that the negotiators will not take the interests of former Soviet bloc countries into account. That has been evident in the case of the undersea pipeline across the Baltic and also in connection with the cargo ferry between Baltijsk and Sassnitz. Bilateral relations between Germany and Russia are to be repackaged as Union relations.
The revival of the rejected Constitution has a bearing on all this too. As it stands, the Constitution is beneficial to the largest Member State of the Union, because it deprives smaller ones of the right of veto. It is that veto, however, that allows us to defend our interests when they are overlooked."@en1
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