Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-05-23-Speech-3-269"
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"Mr President, unlike some here I am actually quite encouraged by what Mr Balkenende has said. Mr Balkenende, you could, after all, have come here and done what some over on that side of the House are urging you to do, and say, ‘We said “no”, end of story. Forget it. No new Treaty. No reform’. But you are not. You are coming here and saying, ‘We said “no”, but we recognise that 18 countries have said “yes”, that an overwhelming majority of the European Union wants to go ahead and reform our Union in the way outlined in the Constitutional Treaty’.
You are saying yes, we will sit down and negotiate a compromise acceptable to all 27 countries, and on top of that you are saying that you want to salvage some of those useful key reforms that are contained in the Constitutional Treaty. You do not want to throw away everything in that Treaty, you want to drop some things which gave cause for concern, much of it to do with the presentation and the vocabulary of that draft Treaty, but the substance you are willing to negotiate on and to save. I think that is a lesson to the doomsayers, and I am encouraged that a compromise is possible."@en1
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