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"Mr President, Commissioner Patten, I too this time must depart from my usual custom and praise my colleague, Mrs Mann, for she certainly deserves it. In these eighteen months I have been a Member of the European Parliament, I have become familiar with the fact that Mrs Mann is well versed in a number of areas and particularly transatlantic relations; and this report is an indication of that also. I disagree with Mrs Ahern, who seems to have left the Chamber already, that the report is not sufficiently political. There are actually very political elements contained, for example, in the explanatory statement, which I, at least, enjoyed reading. Of course, the tone is not one of party politics.
I warmly support the targeted programme of measures to make the general commercial policy of the EU and its Member States more effective. Closer cooperation might even be regarded as an inevitability when we take into account the amendments made at Nice to Article 133 and those many speeches which were made during the night at Nice in favour of a solution that would also go much further. I agree with the rapporteur, too, that the post-Nice agenda should include finding a new approach to the EU’s commercial policy. The rapporteur’s opinion on the processes of globalisation is also to be supported, and especially her opinion regarding a closer common competition policy, which concerns my own committee in particular – the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. The deadline set for the Commission to submit proposals to Parliament must also receive our support, as too should the use of the ‘sunset’ clause in this regulation. These dates set should not, however, mean that the Commission should not have an ongoing obligation to keep Parliament up to date on the progress of the action programme.
Of all the actions covered by the proposal I would in particular like to emphasise the importance of cooperation projects with the United States of America. For example, TABD, the TransAtlantic Business Dialogue, has, as far as I can see, worked well and succeeded in preventing trade disputes and bringing about coordinated views in areas requiring a swift reaction. A good example is the Istanbul World Radio Conference last spring. Transatlantic trade is still the thread of life as far as the global economy is concerned, and the importance of cooperation in this area must not be underrated. We have to remember that there is also a strongly political element connected with this cooperation, the basis for which was created in 1995 with the signing of the New Transatlantic Agenda. Furthermore, Parliament wants to be involved in this work and has therefore attempted to seal its relationship with the US Congress in the spirit of the transatlantic dialogue that my colleague, Mrs Read, also mentioned earlier."@en1
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