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"Mr President, we are very worried about the current growth rate of the European economy, the high unemployment rates and all the social and environmental problems we have to deal with. Therefore I am glad that a couple of weeks ago Parliament adopted a resolution on the Lisbon process and that a lot of its suggestions were taken into account at the spring summit. However, I am still very worried. I shall give some examples on law-making and on policies.
Firstly, with regard to the Reach Programme, it is very important that we come to a decision. That is what Parliament declared unanimously a couple of weeks ago. Uncertainty is very expensive.
Secondly, with regard to the social services directive, Parliament is much more agreed on the necessity of that directive than the Council. We need a firm line on this because the unemployment rate is a catastrophe for human beings and the economy.
With regard to policy areas, we talk about SMEs and we produce very nice documents on them and on the importance of cutting red tape. Now, risk capital is essential to the work of SMEs. At the same time that we talk about the SMEs, unemployment etc., in the aftermath of the Lamfalussy report there are now 240 sub-groups working on new legislation for the financial markets. That is exactly the opposite of cutting red tape and getting enough risk capital for the SMEs.
The second policy area is energy. We know that we have environmental problems, unemployment problems and regional development problems and that we need the production of biomass, district heating and trigeneration. Yet there is no cooperation between agricultural policy, energy policy and industrial policy. This cooperation is necessary; it is extremely important.
Parliament and – I believe – the Commission are determined, but the Council is not being tough enough. You have to be tougher, Mr Juncker."@en1
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