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"Madam President, President-in-Office of the Council, Mr Barroso, I believe the Lisbon Strategy is really something that can embody the added value of the European Union, namely a long-term vision, a goal. However, we also have what is sometimes the cause of all the European Union’s failings: great ambitions but not the resources to match the targets we set ourselves. That is what we have just experienced over these last five years.
We must therefore try to change things over the next five years. That is why, Mr Barroso, Mr Verheugen, I was pleased to hear you say this morning that we were at the beginning and not at the end of the process of reviewing that strategy and that the results of the European Council were not awaited as an end in themselves.
After the meeting we are having today, there are, I believe, at least two essential meetings to come. First, the one on the adoption of the financial perspectives, and what you have just said to us seems to me to be going in the right direction. Then there is the reform of the Stability Pact, about which few have spoken this morning but which is facing the challenge referred to by Mr Poettering this morning when he called for stability and flexibility. Where, however, have we seen leadership being recreated or confidence restored by telling the citizens that nothing must change except their ability to make their employment more flexible? We will not achieve the Lisbon Strategy’s objectives like that.
If we really want to implement this strategy, a thorough reform of the Stability Pact will also be needed."@en1
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