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"Mr President, I have two points and one question. My first point is that the Prime Minister is one of the best defenders of Europe. I was in Nice as a civil servant when he defended a stronger Europe, easier decision-making and qualified majority voting. He was able to hold the meeting hostage to the last minute and he is one of the few who actually defends a truly federal Europe today. There are not too many ‘federalists’ out there: there are many closet federalists, but not many real federalists any more. I really commend him and congratulate him on that. I am glad that some prime ministers are still European.
My second point concerns the controversy about the name of the Constitution. I heard the debate with the Foreign Ministers and I disagree with those who wish to change the name. The name of a ‘Constitutional Treaty’ describes what it is perfectly: it has constitutional elements and it is an international treaty. That treaty’s name was conceived in Joschka Fischer’s speech in May 2000 – six years ago. What responsible parent, six years after christening a child, would go ahead and change its name? It would lose its identity. So let us not try to hide things. Problems do not go away with the change of a name.
Finally, the Prime Minister suggested that there should be a core group around the euro countries. Could he be more specific?"@en1
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