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"Mr President, I believe that body language can sometimes speak louder than words, but I do hope that Mr Moscovici’s distracted and condescending demeanour during this debate is not representative of the attitude of the Council of which he is the President-in-Office.
I am sure that this is not the case, and I hope that those countries which have welcomed President Prodi’s speech with relief and enthusiasm will be able to take steps in the run up to Nice to ensure that it is a genuine success.
I would just like to focus briefly on the appraisal of the Convention method. It is quite true that it is an improvement on an Intergovernmental Conference, but – take note, ladies and gentlemen – even the Convention was forced to achieve consensus on every single word and, in the end, particularly during the concluding phase, it turned into a sort of Intergovernmental Conference II: our Praesidium had to negotiate with the Member States instead of, or as well as, Members of Parliament.
I therefore feel that, once again, the obligation to achieve unanimity on every single part of the Charter as well as on the final result will prove extremely hampering when we come to evaluate the content of the Charter itself."@en1
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