Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-01-18-Speech-3-058"
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"Mr President, to the President-in-Office of the Council and the President of the Commission I want to say the following: let us stop talking about the Lisbon Process as a process in itself. Let us instead talk about what we have done and what we need to do in order to turn the relevant aims and demands into reality, by which I mean achieve European competitiveness. Otherwise, all references to the Lisbon Process will be no more than a device for distracting attention from what is not being done. Let us talk about what needs, in actual fact, to be done.
Implement the Services Directive. That is the most practical thing we can do to strengthen European competitiveness. Ensure that it is done on the basis of a respect for European diversity that makes the most of each country’s competitiveness. That is not only the most important measure for strengthening European competitiveness, it is also the most important thing we can do to bring about the reunification of Europe and ensure that all European countries can experience growth, as well as relations unimpeded by borders.
Ensure that the long-term budget that emerges from the negotiations with Parliament is characterised by higher priority being given to research and development. This is one of the individual measures we can take that will help more than anything else to turn Europe into a leading knowledge-based society.
Ensure that Europe can take vigorous unified action in the context of its policy on Iran, which is at present conducting a policy that is neither acceptable in the international community nor in accordance with the demands that need to be made of every country. A country that threatens to annihilate another country, that secretly develops nuclear fuel technology and that supports terrorism must be confronted by a common unified European policy in alliance with our international partners.
These tasks are basically European ones that show why European cooperation is needed. The Council and the Commission have a great responsibility to ensure that policy is characterised by practical efforts to implement the relevant measures."@en1
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