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"Mr President, Mr President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, there are just a couple of ideas I would like to pick up on. We are in the first half of 2005; we are also discussing the financial framework – the very financial framework that will be your concern, Mr Barroso, throughout your term of office. That being so, I expect your proposals to take into consideration what financial instruments are available to you to enable you to actually accomplish the things you have set yourself to do. I have no sympathy whatever for your desire to continue handling budgetary payments in the same way as the previous Commission did. There, I think, the Commission has some more catching up to do.
The same is also true where own resources are concerned. How does the European Union fund itself? This is where the Commission could perhaps put some new proposals before us as to how we embark on a time of innovation – not only in its work programme, but also in the European Union’s financial arrangements.
Let me raise something that I have already often had to speak about, both here and in Strasbourg: you are quite right to say that Europe has to make sure it can compete and must create jobs. We are eagerly waiting for the Commission to revise the proposal that the colleague to the left of you, Mrs Wallström, brought in when she was Commissioner for the Environment for this mammoth REACH project, which enhances the competitiveness of industries outside the European Union rather than that of those within it. If you want to do something to help create jobs, then withdraw REACH and take a closer look at the whole thing.
Now I read that Commissioner Kyprianou wants to regulate even the grilling of hamburgers, the last area of employment left to us. I thought we had seen the last of this sort of nonsense when Mr Byrne finally departed the scene. You have to consider which model of society you are defending – one in which people are free or one in which they are led by the nose? I supported you because I thought you were in favour of freedom, so I would ask you to introduce some!"@en1
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