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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the answer to the question 'is it possible to create six million new jobs in Europe by 2010?', is yes. In response to the question of whether this is an overly-ambitious objective, the answer is no. As to whether we are capable of achieving that aim, the answer depends on what we do and do not do. What must we not do? We cannot follow the example of those countries which have abandoned structural reforms and increased public spending. We need to do the very opposite: to increase growth. On this subject, I would like to use the example of the Aznar Government's policy in Spain – which can hardly be accused of inefficiency – to propose four practical measures. Firstly, let us make the labour market more flexible in order to increase labour force participation. Secondly, we need to ensure that the cohesion budget for the 2007-2013 period is sufficient for requirements. Thirdly, we need to encourage entrepreneurship by reducing fiscal and administrative burdens. Fourthly, we need to support measures designed to improve education and life-long learning. We also need to complete the single market, making the liberalisation of the communications, energy and financial services markets a priority. Then we need to open up the European economy to the outside world, focusing in particular on NICs. However, none of this will be possible, ladies and gentlemen, unless we have adequate budgetary resources – the figure of 1.24% of gross Community income set by the Commission is fine – and unless we involve the Member States directly in the process, since they are the main stakeholders in the Lisbon Strategy. If any of these States uses the Lisbon Strategy to propose cuts to Community policies that have been effective growth generators or in order to relax the Stability Pact, ladies and gentlemen, I bet you all a slice of Spanish and a Belgian beer that we will be on the road to disaster."@en1
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