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"Mr President, policy priorities are only convincing if resources are available to fund them. That is true both of longer–term ambitions – the financial perspectives to which the Commissioner made reference are a case in point – and of the short-term, namely for the coming year. It is good that a schedule is being drawn up and even better that Parliament is closely involved in it. The latter is necessary from a democratic point of view, and because Parliament is a budgetary authority. This can be perfectly fitted in within Community methods, as the Commission has also understood and applied, for which thanks.
In my view, the annual policy strategy which the Commission communicated to us in February, and which we discussed in April, has lost none of its topicality. The three priorities should therefore definitely be maintained, and, without denying the importance of the other priorities, I should like to ask you to pay special attention to those concerning competitiveness and cohesion. If we really want to create more jobs and achieve sustainable development and real social cohesion, we must create a mechanism in 2005 which not only ensures that the Lisbon objectives are put into practice, but should be accompanied by real incentives and big sticks in order to actually achieve those objectives within a framework that does not jeopardise stability. Let us hope that the Kok report offers us a sound basis for having a debate in the near future, which we should guide towards the taking of decisions that allow us to make a kind of quantum leap. We must make room for this in 2005. In my view, only in that way can we demonstrably ensure the policy’s continuity, show that we are delivering on our promises and offering people what they can expect from us, and that we can clear the path for the policy priorities that Mr Barroso, the new President of the Commission, has announced and which our group generally supports. Finally, I should like to say a word of thanks to the Vice-President of the Commission and also all those of her colleagues who have always given priority to the maintenance of sound democratic relations with this House."@en1
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