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"Mr President, Mr Zapatero, the six-month Spanish Presidency came at a special time – a difficult and an experimental time. This was the first time a Presidency had operated after the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, which redefined and reassigned its competences. Against a background of political, economic and financial failures, adapting the role of the Presidency to work with the newly appointed President of the Council did not develop into a major problem.
It did not prove possible to go ahead with the planned European Union-United States summit, because President Obama refused to attend, or something which was important to Spain – the project for a Union of Mediterranean states. When the Union was faced with an enormous economic crisis, Germany and France took over at the helm, setting the tone of the financial aid programme for Greece. The spectre of financial collapse also hung over Spain itself. So it is hardly surprising that it was the involvement of other countries which came to the forefront in this Presidency. Greater consideration was given to the future of the euro area than to the priorities of the Spanish Presidency. These problems will now have to be taken on, too, by the Belgian Presidency."@en1
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