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Posted by: Chris Rankin (Wednesday 9 March 2005, 1:30 PM)

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My, my. How gracious of him. He conveniently neglects to mention that the European Parliament drastically rewrote this bill already at its FIRST reading, back in September 2003, but that all those amendments were thrown away.

The only reason he's sounding so magnanimous now is because he thinks the hurdle of the Parliament's SECOND reading is impossibly high.

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