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"Madam President, unfortunately I do not have your mastery of the French language. But I would be obliged if Mr Bolkestein would just listen for a minute, which I think he cannot do at the same time as talking to Mrs Randzio-Plath. Could you please draw his attention to the fact that I have something to say to him?
Unfortunately, my Dutch is not as good as yours. But I would rather like to say something else to you. Parliament is not taking the initiative and supporting a Tobin type tax just to annoy the Commission. We want to examine the possibility of introducing a Tobin tax. It will be just one of several instruments and hopefully you will be on our side in this. From a political point of view, I always fret when people say, we neither need, want nor can we achieve these things! It is not your job, it is our job to decide on that. It also has something to do with the newly awoken self-consciousness of this Parliament. I just want to discuss it with you, no more and no less. We can do so without going off at other tangents. I respect you as a serious Commissioner who wants to take his work seriously. Please respect us as Members of Parliament who want to take our work seriously, and that includes the Tobin tax!"@en1
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