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"Mr President, I voted against the Brok report, although I am in favour of enlargement. This was not of course intended as a personal affront to Mr Brok. The reason was that his report fails to take any account of the essential link between enlargement and deepening. There is no reference whatsoever to the delays regarding deepening, nor to the Convention probably becoming bogged down. The link it had been hoped to establish has been severed. This is why I voted against the Brok report. In my view however, it is unfair to penalise innocent parties for a delay that is entirely our fault. Consequently, I voted in favour of assent. I support enlargement and strengthening, and I am against agreeing to give up on strengthening. There is a danger that the Europe we are committing ourselves to will be an enlarged Europe but not a strengthened one. It will be fettered from the outset. Mr President, the reason I voted against the Brok report is that I am opposed to such fettering."@en1
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