Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-11-17-Speech-3-029"
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"en.20041117.3.3-029"2
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"Mr President, the Hague Council took place 48 hours after the election of a new American President – I repeat, a new American President. This is the best way for us to regard that presidency if we want to preserve the transatlantic relationship.
It is very important for Europe now, under the leadership of the Council and the Commission always acting together, to manage at least two very important concerns. If we do that, we will preserve the transatlantic relationship, or at least we will not be blamed for damaging it.
First, we must look to the future and stop thinking about how we got to this point. We must stop thinking about the past and all that has happened in the last four years and must now look to the future in a creative and pragmatic way in order to do our best to solve the different problems on the international agenda.
Second, the Commission, and in particular the Council, must do everything to prevent the United States – willingly or not – from dividing Europe to its own advantage between pro-American and anti-American, pro-Bush and anti-Bush. Our strength will be based only on our unity. If we are united it will strengthen us and then we can solve many problems on the international agenda based on strong cooperation with the new, democratically elected leader of a democratic country, whether we like him or not."@en1
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