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"Mr President, Commissioner, when the Lisbon Strategy was reviewed, you decided to keep it separate from the sustainable development strategy. I think that this was a mistake. These two tools are more than complementary; they are inseparable from one another. That is why, at present, the impression created is of your adopting an ideological stance without taking action. It cannot credibly be proclaimed that sustainable development is one of the three pillars of the Lisbon Strategy unless the necessary bridging clauses are created. As for the content of the action platform presented after considerable delay by the Commission, I have to say that I was disappointed in it. We were expecting more substance and more proposals.
Sustainable development now sounds hollow. Commissioner, I may be somewhat jumping the gun and anticipating our institutional agenda, but your work programme for 2007 will have to take up this challenge. I would ask you to be firmer, more incisive and more audacious in your dealings with the Council. Yes, the Commission must be audacious and courageous, as it is not being at present. It forever censors itself, confronted as it is with a paralysed Council that has nothing more than good intentions, never translated into action. Where energy is concerned, it should be emphasised that nuclear energy is no longer taboo, but it must be accompanied by renewable sources of energy. When it comes to biofuels, Member States – in particular, France and Sweden - are known to be working on these, but on different systems. What has become of harmonisation? No progress is being made. Where are the practical proposals? They are there in people’s minds but, unfortunately, that is where they remain.
As for the Council, I am inclined to tell it to rationalise the instruments available to the EU: the Cardiff process on the integration of environmental aspects into other policies, the Gothenburg sustainable development strategy and the recently revised Lisbon Strategy. Frankly, hand-to-mouth policy needs to take a back seat in favour of visionary policy that considers tomorrow and makes sustainable development a key factor for the future."@en1
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