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PRESIDENCY) TO BE DEVOTED TO EMU WITH IGC ON POLITICAL UNION FOLLOWING AFTERWARDS. THIS WOULD AVOID UNDESIRABLE CROSS-LINKAGES AND MEAN OTHER INSTITUTIONAL CHANGES COULD BE CONSIDERED IN THE LIGHT OF OUTCOME ON EMU. BUT IF OTHERS INSIST ON PARALLEL IGCS LUXEMBOURG WILL ACCEPT THIS, BEING DETERMINED TO GIVE NO AMMUNITION TO THOSE WHO SUGGEST THAT LITTLE LUXEMBOURG CAN'T COPE WITH ITS PRESIDENCY OBLIGATIONS, I.E. RUNNING TWO IGCS IN PARALLEL.
(D) KASEL DREW ATTENTION TO POOS' INTERVENTION ON 21 APRIL IN WHICH HE SAID THAT FOR A SUCCESSFUL IGC UNLIKE THE TOUR DE FRANCE EVERYONE HAD TO FINISH AND THAT EUROPE COULD NOT BE MADE AGAINST ANY MEMBER STATE. I SAID WE HAD INDEED NOTED AND APPRECIATED POOS ' REMARKS.
(E) IF THE DUBLIN DISCUSSION GOES FURTHER INTO SUBSTANCE, SANTER IS LIKELY TO STRESS THE NEED TO ENSURE RESPECT FOR THE COMMUNITY OF LAW AND TO ARGUE THAT THE ACTIONS OF THE COMMISSION AND EP SHOULD BE SUBJECT TO THE COURT OF JUSTICE.
5. KASEL TOLD ME THAT HE HAD IN THE LAST FEW DAYS TRIED OUT THESE IDEAS ON DAVID MARTIN OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT. MARTIN SEEMED QUITE HAPPY WITH LUXEMBOURG IDEAS ON TIMING AND ACCEPTED WITH RESIGNATION WHEN KASEL MADE IT CLEAR THAT FOR LUXEMBOURG THERE COULD BE NO QUESTION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT HAVING ENHANCED LEGISLATIVE POWERS OR A SEAT AT THE TABLE IN EITHER IGC.
I SAID WE CONTINUED TO THINK DEADLINES FOR COMPLETING IGCS A BAD THING AND ALSO THAT THE COMMUNITY WAS IN DANGER OF TAKING ON TOO MANY AMBITIOUS TASKS. BUT, AS YOU HAD SAID, IF OTHERS WANTED TO LOOK AGAIN AT NON-EMU INSTITUTIONS WE WOULD NOT HOLD OUT AGAINST THE IDEA AND WOULD HAVE OUR OWN SUGGESTIONS TO CONTRIBUTE. BY WAY OF ILLUSTRATION I DREW ON THE IDEAS YOU MENTIONED TO EYSKENS (BRUSSELS TELNO 76) AND HAVE SINCE DRAWN KASEL'S ATTENTION TO YOUR SCIENCE PO SPEECH.
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7 I WENT THROUGH PARA. 10 OF YOUR TELNO 172. KASEL SAW NO DIFFICULTY IN THIS FORMULATION. WHILE BROADLY HAPPY WITH THE WAY THINGS WENT AT THE FOREIGN MINISTERS MEETING, KASEL CRITICISED DELORS FOR BEING DISINGENUOUS IN HIS REFUSAL TO GIVE ANY FIGURES. IT WAS IMPORTANT TO CLARIFY WHO WOULD BEAR THE COSTS AND NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO SUGGEST THAT THERE WAS SLACK IN THE BUDGET. KASEL EMPHASISED THE NEED TO ENSURE FAIR COMPETITION AND TO AVOID HIDDEN
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