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"Mr President, honourable Members, as I promised I would at the outset, I have followed this debate closely and listened with interest to your remarks. I fully understand the unease with which this Parliament has followed developments in Romania over the summer. I have taken good note of all the criticisms I have heard in the course of the debate and I will, of course, convey all of them and all your comments to the Council.
As the Presidency representative, I speak on behalf of the Council as a whole and must therefore reflect the position of the Council, and that applies in particular when we are addressing the situation in any one Member State. It is particularly important however that this Parliament also has the opportunity to make its views known and I therefore welcome the possibility of hearing your views at first hand. Let me conclude by reminding you that – irrespective of the merits of the contradictory arguments aired here – the quintessence of democracy, stemming directly from Socrates in ancient Athens, is that you do not change the rules governing the operation of the democratic system for reasons of political expediency."@en1
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