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"Mr President, Mr Barroso, six months after you were appointed by the Council, you find yourself in a very privileged position. You effectively have a five-year mandate ahead of you and you have an extraordinary challenge – finally to put in place this Lisbon Strategy by providing it with real instruments. It is a privileged position, but also a paradoxical one, because, as you mentioned at the lunchtime press conference, when you were Prime Minister, you were not very keen on the Lisbon Strategy. We noticed this during the hearings, too. Today, however, your new responsibilities mean that this programme is now yours. It also represents the best means at your disposal to put the Union back on track and to enable it to face the challenges of tomorrow. Essentially, today’s sitting is virtually a trial run for you to prepare what you are going to say to us next Wednesday, the substance of which is making the Lisbon Strategy the European project for the coming years. If you want to succeed in this perspective, you must ensure that this is based on the following three pillars: financial perspectives aimed at implementing the strategy; a stability pact that enables growth and competitiveness to take place in the Union in terms of sustainable development and employment; and EU policies that work towards this strategy. In order to strike the right balance, the most important thing is not to undervalue the social dimension, which, being in fact at the heart of the European social model’s elements of competitiveness, and of Europe’s strength, including international competitiveness, must not be pushed aside. This is what we are expecting of you and it is on the basis of a programme of your activities in this respect – your legislative programme – that we shall judge you, text by text in a European spirit, that is to say, with the desire to move forward in the service of our fellow citizens."@en1

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