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"Mr President, it is perhaps a sign that I am speaking on the Lisbon strategy when the member of the Commission with responsibility for development aid is present. Although there is no argument about the fact that the goal of making Europe the world’s most competitive region is the right one, we have to look to see who, in Europe, is responsible for what, and I can tell Mr Balkenende that it is when I look at the Council that I find it intolerable that, every month and every year, heads of government and ministers of the economy meet together, agree upon exalted objectives, make Europe responsible for meeting the goals of the Lisbon strategy, then go home and fail to do their homework when they get there. Indeed, they go even further and stand in the way of those things that Europe has to contribute. Take, for example, the European patent: that would be a step ahead as part of a European initiative. Think of the moves towards deregulation, and how the French President and the German Chancellor delayed them for end-users. What Europe achieves is frustrated in the Council, and what ought to be done by the nation states does not get done. The bottom line is that it is Europe that fails to make a success of the Lisbon strategy.
I am grateful for the Kok report; what we now urgently need – as the Lisbon strategy is the right one – is an orientation for it. The goal, although perhaps too ambitiously defined, is the right one. With Member States like ours in Europe, we can now be happy that the gap between us and America is not widening. We have to put forward a concept for this in Europe, one that compares the nation states, providing a transparent view of which European government is failing to implement this strategy and which is good at it, in order, by way of this transparency in the political process, to make the public aware that we cannot do this other than together. Apart from that, I hope that the presence of the Commissioner with responsibility for development aid is not an indication of the direction in which Europe will be drifting in future."@en1
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