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"Mr President, the next spring European Council will have to respond to the challenges of our time, including those presented by the environment and by energy policy. The expectations of our young people will have to be taken into account, and there will be a duty to recognise our ever growing number of older people. All this presupposes the adaptation of our infrastructures. Our society is undergoing huge changes, and that is what worries people. We need, therefore, to help them out by anticipating the difficulties of the next few decades.
The all-encompassing welfare state of the Eighties is no longer the answer. We have to reconcile flexibility and security, to find other ways of according priority to employment and to give our fellow citizens their confidence back – confidence in their politics and in a Europe that is getting its act together. It is a confidence that would spontaneously give a boost to growth, as well as to the birth rate, which is a good barometer of the state of our society. It is a confidence that would lead to immigration being considered a great opportunity and that, instead of hampering private initiative, would free it up and encourage and support it. This restored confidence would enable us to train our researchers better and then to keep hold of them. It is in the interests of a more successfully knowledge-based society that we should do these things, although, in view of what is happening with Erasmus, there is genuine reason to be worried about the prospects for such a society. Finally, this is a Europe that would be without taboos and that would therefore dare to talk in terms of nuclear power and of independence where energy sources are concerned. I could give many more examples of what it could do.
What is the point of speeches, however, without an appropriate budget? We are now told, Mr Barroso, that a choice will have to be made between the trans-European networks and Galileo. Is that possible? No, it is not. Galileo is needed, and the internal market needs to be completed by means of better communications. Allow me, moreover, to put in a word here for the Lyon-Turin rail link.
I do not, then, want this morning to be the umpteenth occasion for talking about the Lisbon Strategy. Words, words, words … It is time to translate words into action. I would call on the Heads of Government to take their courage in both hands. The Lisbon Strategy is the only antidote to the various forms of national protectionism."@en1
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