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"Mr President, in my opinion, the priorities of the Commission’s working programme for 2002 must focus on the European Union’s immediate challenges, both in the internal field (the internal market and Economic and Monetary Union), and in the external field – especially following the attacks of 11 September – including, of course, the fight against terrorism.
These challenges are very clear – how to revitalise our economies just a few weeks before the introduction of the single currency, how to take advantage of the challenges and opportunities offered by accession, with 13 countries seeking entry to the Union and, at the same time, how to reinvent Europe in a situation and at a moment when we are about to begin the work of a convention aimed at preparing a new Intergovernmental Conference, the objective of which must be to prevent the ‘Old Continent’ becoming an outdated continent.
This Commission’s working programme for 2002 is accompanied by a communication on the Community method. I believe that that is an absolutely fundamental issue and we would be making a grave error if were to devote ourselves entirely to incidental issues and allow what is really crucial at the moment to stagnate.
Next year there will be elections in several countries of the European Union and we need an institution which not only cares for the coming generations, but which takes account of their concerns and challenges. And that institution must be the European Commission, Mr President.
This is not the time to analyse the decimal points presented to us by financial analysts. This is a time for considering the broader picture and I believe, Mr President, that it would be a serious mistake for this Parliament to exaggerate the errors which may be made by the European Commission. I want to say this, Mr President, because it is in the interest of Parliament and the Community as a whole to have a strong Commission. It therefore seems to me that, before preaching about how to sort out the world’s problems, we should take a good look at our own institution and respect the work and decisions taken in the field of our parliamentary bodies.
I say this in relation to something Mr Barón mentioned – I regret that he is not present at the moment – and frankly I do not believe that we should take advantage of this debate to introduce extemporaneous issues which are not currently amongst our concerns or relevant to this debate.
I also believe, Mr President, that it would be a serious mistake for the Commission not to direct all its efforts towards restoring that alliance, that harmonious partnership between Parliament and the Commission, which has led to all the progress made within the Community.
Mr President, I hope that, by means of this working programme, the disagreements of the past may be transformed into the agreements of the present and I hope that that method will prevail in the work between the Commission and Parliament. Anything else would be to confuse what is incidental with what is fundamental. We should mobilise all our forces in order to consolidate, as I have said, this strategic alliance."@en1
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