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Proceeding contribution from Tony Blair (Labour) in the House of Commons on Monday, 20 June 2005. It occurred during Ministerial statement on European Council.


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I did not quite approach the matter in that way. It is important to say, not just for the audience in the Chamber, but for the audience outside as well, that it is unreasonable to expect the whole system to change overnight. It is reasonable to expect that we have a process in place to change it. That is what we are asking for. In certain parts of the rest of the EU, it has been said that we were demanding an immediate, overnight change of all the priorities and trying to renegotiate the whole CAP on Friday night. That would be absurd and no one ever suggested it. What we are saying, however, is that we cannot wait until 2014 before we confront those issues.


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
435 c538 
Session
2005-06
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Contributions Democracy EU enlargement EU action EU budget EU economic policy Referendums Common agricultural policy Treaties European Council
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