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"Mr President, Commissioner, I hope the Commission’s recent communication and today’s debate in this House will usher in a new era of relations between the EU and India. The Lisbon strategy, commits us to achieving an economy racing along at the crazy speed of the US economy within a space of time that I regard as unrealistic. If this strategy is to be implemented, the European Union will need the help of a partner and friend over the next few years. Could Russia or China act as such a partner for the next 20 or 50 years? This appears highly improbable. Anyone who has lived and worked in those countries and become acquainted with their policies and development plans would agree with me.
For many years, we have been receiving clear declarations from India it would like to build closer links, and that these could involve more than the economy and investment. A willingness to forge closer political and global relations has also been expressed. Now is an excellent time for the newly-enlarged and 450-million-strong European Union, which has been reinvigorated by an influx of new countries, to build links with the Indian economy of over a billion people. This would create a new alliance of the kind we need. It would bring together a quarter of the world’s population. It is in our interests to forge links with a country where 50% of the population is under 20 years of age, and where GDP has risen by an average of 7% for the past few years. India is a world leader in many fields of science and industry, such as biotechnology, bioinformatics, electronics, the space industry and defence.
There remains a great deal for us to do. There is work to be done with regard to the economy, investment, technological exchange and the building of civil society, and also with regard to the joint reconstruction of old international organisations such as the UN that do not always function as well as they should. Whilst adopting today’s Council statement and the recommendations made by this House, we should now think in such terms ..."@en1
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