Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-07-02-Speech-3-041"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-07-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The programme of the Italian Presidency2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030702.1.3-041"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-07-02-Speech-3-0422
lpv:speaker	lp:Guido Podestà2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; CONT (2002-07-04--2004-07-19)3 member; BUDG (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-president; European Parliament (2002-01-15--2004-07-19)3 vice-president; Parliament's Bureau (2002-01-15--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2002-03-08--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Forza Italia (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President-in-Office, you spoke of a great Europe and, indeed, with the arrival of the new countries, we are experiencing a moment of Europe’s reconciliation with its own history and its own civilisation. Europe will only be great, however, if it can preserve its ability to compete in the economic field. As you said, Europe will be able to exert influence if it can act decisively. If, today, there is a ghost haunting Europe, it is the risk of losing its competitive ability on a world scale. I therefore applaud your mention of the Lisbon strategy and also the reference in your programme to competitiveness in the service of shared prosperity. Since Lisbon, Mr President-in-Office, three years have been wasted – and I mean wasted. That is why it is right to seek new lines of development and new economic instruments, as you have done. We need imagination, we need the ability to see beyond what is obvious, and therefore the proposal to build up our infrastructure, both tangible and intangible (such as human resources and research), by mobilising private resources as well as public funds is the right road. It is also necessary to bring the subject of a sustainable pensions system to European Union level. Many of us, in this Parliament and outside, are convinced that your Presidency will be the key to success in this critical period in the construction of a united Europe. I should like to remind those who today have brought us the venom of a certain mediocre kind of Italian politics that in a democracy it is the citizens’ votes that give legitimacy, and nothing else. Perhaps for them the concept of democracy is too recent for them to have adopted it completely. We, as Italians and Europeans, are proud that you are going to lead Europe for these six months. I wish you every success in your work, Mr President-in-Office!"@en1

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