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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I too would like to thank Mr Trentin for his excellent report and for his work, which quite clearly reveals the slowdown in the progress of our Community’s economic policy: a fact that has become extremely clear, as has – and I am taking advantage of the presence of the Commissioners in the Chamber – the issue of poor cooperation in economic matters between the European Union and the European Parliament.
This is not, then, just a question of hoping that, in the future, the cooperative effort between Parliament and the Union will become reality. This is a real necessity if we still believe in the prevalence of politics over a certain type of economy, characterised by lobbying, which has certainly not yielded the desired result thus far, as is shown by the figures on the economic slowdown.
What, then, can we hope for in such a situation? I feel that, faced with the current momentous problems of our world – which have been mentioned, touched on today – we need to start to reason, to attempt to apply our great Europe’s entrepreneurial capacity to the problems of social cohesion which were evident in Mr Marino’s report too. We need to be able to define the new relationship between the new economy and the Welfare State in terms of the modern context, the Welfare State needs to be redefined for the modern age. We are attempting to do so in Italy and we are succeeding, but only by means of a great struggle to remodernise the relationship between capital and the world of work and achieve a great synthesis of the two, with a view, not least – and this is my invitation to Mr Trentin and the other Members of my committee – to what is going to happen in a few years’ time with enlargement, which is now almost upon us.
The Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, chaired by Mrs Randzio-Plath, recently visited Bulgaria, where we were able to take a look at the budget of the applicant States, with some practical concern for what the implications will be for our economy. We must therefore act as if enlargement were on our doorstep and congratulate ourselves on our endeavours. In my opinion, Mr Trentin was right to refer in his recommendation to the age-old, noble values of which the Europeans are traditionally the champions; the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs has therefore made good progress along this road, which is the road to the practical creation of an essentially inclusive European State with a sound economy."@en1
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