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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, the report to be debated next is very closely related to what has just been debated.
It is therefore essential to promote a change of mindset, in order to restore those values that made European societies great societies that strove forward and that were in the vanguard of all of humanity's activities.
I genuinely believe that this is fundamental and, of all the aspects that we could discuss and which appear in this and in other reports, I would like to focus on this essential dimension: we in the European Parliament, in the Commission and the Council must reach a great agreement, a great pact, in order to ensure that the values of effort, of being self-demanding, of taking action, of enterprise, are instilled in Europeans from their birth and in their training. If not, we will be left behind. The clock is ticking here as well. If we do not move forward, European societies will be left behind, and we will be largely responsible for that.
Until now we have been debating the consequences of essentially industrial restructuring for the European economies and, in particular, for workers. The report we are going to debate next relates to those measures, approaches or policies that may have a positive effect in terms of resolving the employment situations faced by workers belonging to industries that close or relocate.
The report that we are going to debate now relates to the factor that is fundamental to any possible solution to these situations and that has a decisive effect on the development of the European economies and hence the European societies' prospects for progress: it is simply the concept of innovation.
Innovation is the key word; innovation is the concept that could offer us a possible solution to the problems that were being discussed in the last debate and others or, alternatively, take us further away from that solution.
Within that context and within the broader perspective of revitalising the Lisbon Agenda, the Commission presented a report that was intended to integrate a whole series of decisions that had been taking place since 2000 and until recently, which relate to innovation and which propose a series of measures for improving innovation in the European economies.
I would like to comment on three essential aspects which are dealt with in my report. Firstly, education and training – and I would add mindset, since there is a huge problem here in terms of attitudes to dealing with innovation. Secondly, organisation, with a view to ensuring that innovation takes place more effectively. And thirdly, funding.
With regard to education and training, I believe that they are fundamental – as certain Members pointed out during the previous debate. Life-long training, flexible training, training that enables people to adapt to the new needs of the market, are absolutely crucial if we want a society in which there are genuine opportunities for everybody at all times of change.
Furthermore, I believe that there is a fundamental problem of attitude. A society that banishes the values of capacity for enterprise, of effort, of being self-demanding and, ultimately, of innovation which is linked to all of those factors will not be able to survive.
In this regard, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that we must be very aware of what we are facing. Others are behind us, others have been successful for a long time, but European society, or a large proportion of European society, licks its wounds constantly, it complains constantly, with the paradoxical result that those with the most wounds are the ones that end up in the worst situation."@en1
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