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"Mr President, these are ambitious goals for next year’s legislation that are being presented. The problem is simply that, as usual, there are so many goals that there is a danger of there being no prioritisation at all.
I wish to create an EU that is slimmer but sharper edged, that does less but is better at what it does and that takes vigorous action on issues of common interest, while leaving other issues to be decided at national, regional or local levels.
Stable and sustained growth is needed in Europe. The EU’s competitiveness needs to be improved, perhaps more than we think. The United States is now discussing the growth that exists in China and is making ambitious plans for achieving the same levels. Meanwhile, we in Europe are still discussing the United States. In that way, we are already several steps behind. Europe has huge potential for growth, which must be released, but it needs to muster its strength and to prioritise. Otherwise, the Lisbon process is in danger of bearing out Groucho Marx’s statement that ‘[p]olitics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies’. Sustainable development is the basis for growth, and the programme is too weak where this aspect is concerned.
Thirdly, freedom of movement within the EU presupposes that people feel they have legal security when they leave their own countries to study, work or take holidays in other Member States. Unfortunately, there are at present far too many people who have not obtained the right to fair trials and legally secure treatment when they have been suspected of committing crimes in other countries. Common guarantees in this area are, of course, in preparation, but we have now waited so many years for these. It is important for these issues of legal security to be resolved so that people dare to make use of the four freedoms."@en1
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