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"Mr President, many thanks to the shadow rapporteurs and all the members of the Committee on Legal Affairs who have worked so hard with me on this report. I have tried to include all their suggestions, not just in the text, but also in terms of the pace and the timetable which they themselves suggested.
I would like to say to them, in all humility, that I hope to be able to help them as well and as faithfully as they have helped me when I make my contributions to the reports they will soon be undertaking themselves, particularly Mr Karim, with whom I hope to work in depth.
However, given that we are speaking in the context of parliamentary courtesy, I should also like to suggest to Ms Lichtenberger and Mr Engström, who have worked very hard on this matter and whom I have consulted so often, that between now and the part-session in March, when we will vote on this report, they reconsider their abstentions, which they cast on the basis of preconceived ideas and uncertainty about whether the theory matches up with the reality. No, we are going to trust that the theory is both theory and good practice too. If they vote in favour, with us, and this report is approved — perhaps not unanimously by all Members but definitely by all the parliamentary groups, by the heads of the parliamentary groups — this will give us greater legitimacy to demand, as Ms Lichtenberger says, that practice and theory truly are not two different things, but rather that they are one and the same; that this can be achieved and that all of you can see it through, as I believe you deserve in your work.
Lastly, I should mention that we could not go without the daily outburst of euroscepticism in Parliament, which was in fact quite disgraceful, since the person is not even here to listen to our response.
Alicante, both city and region, cannot be blamed for being a seaside place, nor for being a heavenly location. It cannot be criticised either for being the place where Mr Campinos and all his team have done such an excellent job, as Mr Barnier has quite rightly said. We have visited them there. I led a European Union delegation on that visit, and I was fascinated by the work they are doing in Alicante. Anyone who still has any doubts about this issue should join the next delegation that Mr Barnier has encouraged us to arrange so that we can visit Alicante again.
I would like to say to this eurosceptic that, when he was talking about something he knew nothing about, as Mr Karim quite rightly said, I was thinking about something that I do know about, the British writer Aldous Huxley, who at the end of his great novel
quotes the Bible through Burlap, one of his main characters, who says: ‘Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.’
Indeed, the Kingdom of Heaven, the kingdom of Parliament, is made up of people such as these, who do not know what they are talking about, but they are – I hope – a qualified minority."@en1
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