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"Madam President, I would like to make three points. First, I would like to thank the rapporteur for what I think is an excellent report. 78% of us live in cities. The nice thing about cities is that they are a common European phenomenon and even anti-Europeans such as Mr Allister could support Urban II. That is already a step in the right direction.
My second point, given that we have the Commissioner for Regional Affairs here, is to focus not only on urban affairs but other affairs towards the Baltic Sea region as well. That is perhaps something that the Commissioner and DG REGIO could look at, in other words, the fact that we have eight countries with a whole bunch of big old Hanseatic cities now surrounding the Baltic Sea area. Perhaps they could think of a Baltic Sea strategy along those lines. I would also like to stress that cities are the most important growth, innovation, economic, social and regional centres that we have and therefore the focus should be on that.
I would like to address my final point to my friend Mr Libicki in reference to yesterday’s debate about what Mr McCreevy said or did not say. I am Finnish and I come from a ‘welfare’ system. Whatever Mr McCreevy said, I think what we did yesterday was in many ways wrong. The World Economic Forum ranks Finland as the most competitive economy in the world, Sweden as the third and Denmark as the fourth, but I can guarantee one thing: the last person I want to have preaching to me about competitiveness is a German Socialist in the form of Mr Schulz!"@en1
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