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"Mr President, President of the Commission, when it comes to setting out strategic orientations, it is best to speak clearly so that we can better express our aims. The European Union has to be the Europe of freedom, and freedom only exists in a healthy economic environment, where there is real and effective security. We need a competitive economy to meet the challenges of growth and full employment within a context of globalisation, the benefits of which we must learn how to harness.
The challenge we face is that of achieving an economy that makes use of natural resources in a balanced way and that is efficient because it is modern, and not because it accepts any breach of the commitments on which the essence of its social model is based. Wealth cannot be produced without work, and more wealth cannot be produced by working less. There is no such miracle, and those who persist in conjuring up that mirage will be responsible for less development and less cohesion on both the economic and the social fronts.
In addition, we need security. Not the security of talk that exploits people’s fears or that ignores the threats, but the kind resulting from firm policies that guarantee effective borders and internal security.
Europe also needs to share with our traditional allies an international policy that promotes democracy and peace in our neighbouring countries and which contributes to a safer and more developed world.
Mr President, the coming years will require Mr Barroso’s Commission to display competence and to chart a firm course during a period marked by uncertainties arising from the ratification of the Constitutional Treaty and the financial constraints imposed on the Member States by the Stability and Growth Pact. We cannot have a Union with more competences, more policies, more obligations and more Member States on the one hand, and a smaller budget and fewer resources on the other. It is an impossible equation, which, in the long term, will prevent us from achieving what we all want: a free, developed economy on safe territory. That is truly the key to our model and to the political orientations on which it must be based over the coming years."@en1
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