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"Mr President, firstly, it goes without saying that the decision taken by the Council is not prejudicial. The Council would never take a decision that would cause harm either consciously or voluntarily. That is unthinkable. The Council only takes decisions when it believes they are in the best interests of the Union and its Member States.
Additionally, with regard to the supposed discrepancy between the Commission and the Council, I can only say that the Commission fully complied with its obligations laid down in the Treaties to monitor the Stability Pact and to propose to the Council the activation of the early warning mechanism, and that the Council carried out its corresponding obligation upon this warning from the Commission, and unanimously decided that, having obtained clear guarantees and commitments from the States involved, it should take the decision it took.
You ask me to compare the decision taken for Ireland with that taken for Germany and for Portugal. In the case of Ireland, the Council took the decision it deemed appropriate – I imagine it took specific considerations into account – and then, in the case of Portugal and Germany, it took another decision it also deemed appropriate. That is to say, the limits of the Council’s discretion to make recommendations to countries that are in danger of not complying with the Stability Pact are absolutely sovereign and the Council decides on each case according to circumstances, and it goes without saying that the Irish case was not the same as the Portuguese case or the German case. In the Portuguese and German cases, guarantees were given that were unanimously approved by Council members and the Council therefore took it upon itself to take the decision, in line with its own competences and responsibilities."@en1
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