Every time you do a one-off payment, and so if you have a billion or two billion (euro) in one-off payments, you're reducing your capacity to deal more substantively with issues that matter to people on an ongoing basis, not just on a one-off basis.
Discussing energy credits and budget priorities.
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I genuinely believe that dialogue is the way. I've always believed in dialog, and I think dialogue is the way to resolve this situation.
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