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"Mr President, I approve of the Commission proposal – even if it is not very substantial, and I support those who highlighted the fact – not to go lower than what was agreed, which is already an absolute minimum for a Europe that has grown, that will continue to grow and that rightly seeks to enlarge the scope of its political actions outside its institutional confines in order to embrace a wider horizon. From this point of view, it is certainly important to support such an approach. As others have stressed, however, at this stage in the European debate – where it is so threatened by tendencies always to want to do more as well as to want to scrimp and save – the Commission should have gone a step further. Thanks to the Commission and its Sapir report, we know how much we really need to change the priorities of our investments and our budget to be competitive and to give Europe the hopes and objectives that Mr Prodi referred to. The Sapir report has, however, remained in a draw because it worries many people and many governments who do not want to hear talk of certain issues. So, at a time when the Commission has got into the habit of touching on sensitive issues, as it did with the Stability and Growth Pact, there is, for example, this agreement, which seems to be set in stone and which, while we are discussing the CAP, we are committed to not touching until 2013. This issue should, then, have been included in today’s communication."@en1

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