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twofold position (Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, during this unusual week the European Parliament is taking a twofold position on its executive.
• After acceding to power in 2005, the government had a twofold position concerning the European Constitution: on the one hand, the "Constitutional Treaty was dead; hence there was nothing to talk about"; on the other hand, although the President made various public statements pointing out that there were a number of issues in the Constitution he did not like, he hardly referred to the Council's voting system.) |
