Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-04-04-Speech-2-161"
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I welcome the thrust of the concerns and recommendations contained in the broad economic policy guidelines for 2006. At this time, the debate should focus on workable decisions aimed at making the economic environment more conducive to growth, jobs, competition, innovation and wealth creation. We should not be wasting our energy on peripheral matters or, equally seriously, on what should be self-evident.
The EU Member States, and their political leaders, have a duty to promote a political environment that is favourable to economic reform. What is urgently needed is discourse characterised by truth, courage and results. We need to be bold and to challenge our societies to invest in the future and in themselves. We need to be capable of creating the necessary conditions for that investment to take place. The future is not necessarily anything to fear. Yet most European governments appear fearful. It is because this report rejects that way of thinking and because it comes across as a challenge to take action with workable objectives and proposals, most of which I agree with, that I have supported it."@en1
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