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"Mr President, since the Lisbon European Council set itself the target of making the EU the world’s most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy by 2010 – an economy that can create sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion – we can ask ourselves how matters have developed since then. In short, nothing has happened. The increases in the United States’s and our own competitiveness have been so markedly different that the discrepancies between the United States and the EU have increased, rather than decreased, since that target was set.
We therefore have a very great problem, and all we can say is that, up until now, the Lisbon strategy has not worked at all and that the target is now even further away than it was when it was adopted. As will have become apparent from the debate in Parliament, there is too much bureaucracy and there are too many regulations. What we lack is training, better access to capital and a long list of structural changes to enable us to cope successfully in the new knowledge-based economy. The key to progress will be more basic research so that the new knowledge can quickly be converted into exciting, well-paid and interesting jobs.
I want to say that Mr Mann’s report is a step in the right direction in promoting economic growth and increasing the number of jobs in the Member States. He emphasises the importance of small and medium-sized businesses and sets out a long list of initiatives that I believe will enhance the process."@en1
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