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"Mr President, I wanted to pick up on a couple of the points raised by Mr Prodi and by the Greek Presidency.
Firstly, on the research and development policy of the European Union, Mr Prodi talked about the need to develop and invest in clean technologies. Obviously our group agrees with this. We need to develop environmentally friendly technologies, partly because of the employment opportunities they create and the training needs that exist, but also because of their positive social repercussions. I note that the Greek Presidency has identified cutting-edge technologies, in biotechnology and defence, as research priorities. That begs a few questions about how we are deciding what we wish to invest in, with whom we are wishing to compete, and for what purpose.
I am interested in understanding how this links to the current treaty requirement in Article 6 to integrate the environment into policies and practices of the European Union. Mr Trakatellis made some very important points on this. We are pleased that in future we are going to be monitoring policies in terms of a social sustainable development emphasis. Given that the Spring summit is supposed to be about sustainability, I am also interested to know what proposals there will be from Council about how it is going to change its own structures to deal with this much more integrated approach.
Our group is also interested to note that the Greek Presidency's priorities include the tasks relating to services of general interest, because we are going to be looking at the preparations for Cancun and the offers from the EU in that connection."@en1
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