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"Mr President, the Lisbon process was unclear and ambiguous right from the beginning. It contained two different strategies. The one strategy prioritised cutting-edge technologies, research-based innovations
commerce, the liberalisation of network markets and such like. The second strategy prioritised full employment, social integration and education for all, instead.
In that way, all the groups could imagine they had won in Lisbon, and everyone could therefore applaud the decisions. Now, however, we see ever more clearly the gulf between the two ways: that which pinned its hopes on the élite and that which put its faith in the ordinary people, often the weaker groups.
I think that, as rapporteur, Mr Bullmann has really endeavoured for as long as possible to preserve unity and the policy of compromise on socio-economic matters. We can nonetheless see how certain Member States and political parties have become increasingly impatient and wish to abandon the route of a compromise policy.
We in the Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left view many of the amendments that have come in with great concern. If they were to be adopted tomorrow, the majority of our group would feel compelled to vote against them in the final vote. We should not do that with any pleasure, but there
limits. One simply cannot just go on compromising. We shall therefore follow the vote, amendment by amendment, before we adopt a position.
Finally, I wish to lodge a protest against the fact that almost no account at all has been taken of the candidate countries’ needs and interests in our discussion prior to the Barcelona Summit. There are only a few years left before enlargement, and it is high time that we began to face that reality head on. It is a shame that we have not taken a clearer and more comprehensive view of this state of affairs."@en1
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