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"It is clear that Parliament agrees with the Commission that the renewal of the Lisbon Strategy focuses on the creation of jobs, help for small and medium-sized enterprises, growth and research. The causes of the strategy’s lack of success to date have been mostly the inaction and short-term thinking of the Member States. Because of this, Parliament and the Commission must jointly exert pressure on the Member States, in the interests of reaching the targets which have now been clearly redefined. They must exert pressure because the Union’s seven-year financial outline guarantees the necessary funds for realising the goals of job creation, and assistance for small and medium-sized research and development businesses. At the same time this should not reduce the new cohesion funding for new members and for helping less-developed regions catch up.
This is vital for maintaining the unity of the Union.
We must ensure that realisation of the Lisbon targets is equally accessible to all. It is important that the stimulus reaches those affected by it, and in this pressure must be used on the governments of the Member States, so that they override short-term political and budgetary objectives. In some of the new Member States today there are still major budgetary and bureaucratic obstacles blocking small and medium-sized enterprises and farmers from successfully competing with larger businesses, or simply from being able to get what is theirs by law. Because of this, farmers are demonstrating at the moment in the streets of Budapest against Hungary’s government.
Support for knowledge centres with more developed cultures of research and science in the new Member States is vital too, as is that they too should be able to take equal part in the implementation of the Lisbon Strategy. Today, because of lack of funds in the new Member States, they are not able to prevent the loss of their best researchers. The brain drain mostly improves American, not European, competitiveness. Work, work, work: this makes Europe competitive, and European citizens richer.
Honourable Mr President! Members of Parliament, of the PPE-DE Group, and of the new Member States, are your allies in this struggle.After words, we must follow up with deeds."@en1
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