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"Mr President, Mr Barroso, I would ask you to give more thought than you do in your paper to how you might better communicate to the public the contents and objectives you so rightly define.
Mr Barroso, competitiveness is one of your important themes, it is one of our important themes! I nevertheless see many citizens who believe it has nothing to do with them, that it is a matter only for industry, for big business. No, without greater competitiveness we will be unable to maintain the social system in Europe, without greater competitiveness we will be unable to maintain the social model of Europe.
It is much the same with education. Education is not something of interest only to an elite. Education must reach broad sections of the population if we want to achieve one of Europe’s essential objectives, namely to prevent the exclusion of people or groups. Education is especially important, too, when we consider that we are
a continent of immigration. It is most important for the integration of new immigrant citizens that we develop the education sector accordingly.
So far as the Globalisation Fund you mention is concerned, we will in fact only be able to finance it if we also increase our competitiveness so that we do not risk having to call on this Globalisation Fund too often.
A second example I would like to take, because you place a great deal of emphasis on it in your paper, is energy policy. I do not want to anticipate what the Members who will speak after me will have to say, but one important subject that you touched on is security of energy supply. I am very pleased that you visited Moscow recently and – from what I have heard – not without success, even though it is in many respects still up to Russia to take decisions, on the Energy Charter in particular.
Finally, I have also heard that you have said we should also talk about nuclear energy. You are right and I am very pleased that we shall be hearing from the Commissioner responsible for energy shortly. Although I am sceptical about nuclear energy, we must still talk about it, and also about the risks it entails. If we are discussing proliferation these days in connection with Iran, then more nuclear energy also means more dangers unless we ensure, jointly and multilaterally, that the associated risks are minimised as much as possible.
I think more ought to be said about this subject in particular, both by you and in the Green Paper. That is particularly the case, too, for infrastructure development. Because without more infrastructure – pipelines in particular, but in other areas as well – we will never be able to give this continent energy security and we will not give Europe the corresponding new technological boost. I fully support you on that. I wish you more strength and courage, however, in putting these decisions into effect.
You mentioned Montesquieu, and someone else wanted Machiavelli. I wish you the wisdom of a Montesquieu, but also the strength and cunning of a Machiavelli, to get your programme through."@en1
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