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lpv:spoken text	". Mr President, I would like to thank the Prime Minister for meeting with us again today. I would also like to thank the President of the Commission for being with us. Having listened to some of the contributions from both the Prime Minister and some of my colleagues as presidents of groups, the situation could be summed up in words such as ‘meeting the challenge of globalisation’ and ‘exploiting the opportunities that it brings’. In reality, when we look at what we have to deal with at the forthcoming European Council informal summit, there should be four guiding principles towards that: solidarity, generosity, responsibility and capacity. The solidarity in question is to ensure that there is protection not only of the social model, as we see it, with the basic tenets of what that social model should contain, but also that there is solidarity with our fellow Member States and those who require the most income now and the most transfer of wealth to assist them in the redevelopment and upgrading of their infrastructure, systems and markets. There should be generosity, by the richer and larger Member States, towards the smaller States to ensure that they are protected and are given the opportunity to exploit these new advantages. There should be capacity, to ensure that we can deliver on behalf of our citizens, because whatever ideology you speak of, whatever ‘-ism’ you want to put to it, the real test of political work, the real test of new legislation, is about improving people’s lives on a daily basis, making sure that the lives of the ordinary man and woman on the street are better, that they have employment, social security, a proper health service and a proper education service. These are the real issues that should face us as we go forward. Finally, we should put the negotiations on the financial perspectives into a smaller context, because – whatever the percentages involved – the responsibility, the capacity, the generosity and the solidarity that I spoke of are equally as important in that area. But let us not overturn an agreement on the common agricultural policy that was made in 2002. Let us ensure that we do not drive against one section of society for the so-called benefit of other sections of society. Farmers and agricultural workers have had a difficult enough time up to now. I say to you, Mr Blair: Be strong, be firm, be true, but most importantly of all, be not afraid. To paraphrase George Bernard Shaw: some men see things as they are and wonder why; I dream things as they should be and say, why not?"@en1
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