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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-12-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Results of the European Council meeting of 13 and 14 December 2007 in Brussels - Report on the six months of the Portuguese Presidency (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20071218.5.2-045"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-12-18-Speech-2-0472
lpv:speaker	lp:Giles Chichester2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, may I compliment the Prime Minister for his statement today and on his time as President-in-Office of the Council. I am pleased that the European Council remains committed to action on climate change. I welcome also the commitment to addressing the remaining barriers to completing the single market, although I am concerned that the Lisbon Strategy emphasis seems to be moving away from the need for economic reform towards the so-called ‘social model’. I suspect the Lisbon meeting was a gathering that the British Prime Minister will not look back on with pride. He signed up to a Treaty on which he promised the British people a referendum. He has now reneged on that pledge. I believe the Treaty fails to address the fundamental issues of transparency and accountability – bringing Europe closer to the people – that the Laeken Declaration made a priority. Mr Brown’s behaviour in Lisbon was both extraordinary and maladroit. By signing the Treaty at all, he upset the majority of the British people; by snubbing the formal ceremony, he insulted his fellow heads of government. Even by his standards, this was breathtaking political miscalculation. The announcement that there is to be a reflection group on the future of Europe is not welcome. Why do we need yet another body when we have just had three years of self-imposed agonising over the Constitution? Mr Brown says there will be no more institutional debate. He said, and I quote, ‘It is time to focus on the economy, on security, on the environment’. Yet Mr Sarkozy in effect says, ‘au contraire – it will think big’. As he said, and I quote, ‘the job of the group is to define a new European dream.’ I thought that is what Mr Giscard d’Estaing was supposed to have done. I feel a little confused. Perhaps the Prime Minister can help me."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with the United States (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 substitute; IMCO (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; ITRE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2007-02-15--2008-03-26)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-08-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 chair; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2007-03-14--2008-03-26)3 member; Temporary Committee on Climate Change (2007-05-10--2009-02-04)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Giles Chichester (PPE-DE ). –"1

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