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"Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, I would like to draw the attention of the President-in-Office to the fact that, although Cyprus acceded to the European Union at the same time as Poland, the term ‘new Member State’ is never used with regard to Cyprus. New Member States seem to be the ones from behind the Berlin Wall. You are part of the same group, but you are never treated as being new, and this offers an opportunity to create a kind of bridge between old members and the rest of Central and Eastern Europe. This is a very important political issue and we are looking to you for some degree of sensitivity in dealing with it. With regard to your statements concerning the issue of European cohesion, I would like, as the author of a report on one of the funds, for these declarations to be translated into negotiation concerning the multiannual financial framework. We are counting on the Cypriot Presidency preventing Member States from dividing into those who are friends of cohesion and those who are friends of better spending. Those who are friends of cohesion are at the same time friends of better spending. There is no contradiction here; this is just an artificial division that is best avoided. In fact we should all be friends of better spending. This means greater interdependence and mutual support, complementarity of European policies to avoid duplication, not creating additional administration and not repeating certain ideas. This is better spending. In this context I am counting on the Cypriot Presidency to be a friend to cohesion and, by so doing, be a friend of better spending."@en1
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