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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Commission is present here today to listen to you. The Commission’s considerations will draw upon today’s debate, which will undoubtedly be of great assistance to us in proposing strategic priorities for the entire Union and in concluding the preparation of our work programme for the first year of this Commission. I shall present these proposals to you at the second plenary session of January. They will then have to be discussed by Parliament and by the Council so that agreement can be reached on the objectives and priorities for the Union during the first half of 2005.
I should like to say another word or two about my initiative to develop joint strategic objectives. One the one hand, the concept of multiannual planning is now enshrined in the Constitution. It has indeed already been put into practice with the Council and the last Parliament. For the time being, however, we are solely committed to coordinating the planning for the three institutions, without going as far as coordinating our strategic visions for the medium- and long-term future.
On the other hand, although it is true that the previous Commissions presented their vision, this did not always represent the expression of a real partnership with Parliament or the Council. The practical result was that Europe was being driven without a sufficiently clear roadmap, the consequence being that we were sometimes diverted from our route by external international events and that our priorities changed too much as a result of the political agendas of the different presidencies.
At the very least, therefore, we are duty-bound to do our best to set the medium- and long-term priorities for the entire Union, by which I mean not just the priorities for our institution, but also the efforts that we must make to set priorities for the whole of Europe.
Our joint strategic objectives must act as a global navigation system for Europe for the next five years. It is clear that we must demonstrate flexibility and show ourselves to be capable of adapting to change. Nonetheless, our joint objectives will certainly help us to define priorities to be used later to assess the work of our institutions: the Commission, Parliament and the Council.
I am very much looking forward to hearing your contributions and working with you to establish an ambitious agenda for the future of Europe."@en1
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