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"Mr President, during August we lost François Lamoureux at the age of 59 – far too soon. I knew him as Director-General for Transport and Energy. His door was always open. He was always curious to hear people’s views, to give advice and to express his opinion. His lucidity and intelligence, his professional standards and rigour, his complete consistency, and even the impertinence of the most lucid: he offered us one of the best examples of a vocation for European public service, based on a federalist, Europeanist and genuinely progressive conviction.
We owe to him the fact that the Delors White Paper became a reality in the trans-European networks, and also, irony of ironies, the opening up of the rail sector under the best possible circumstances, the Galileo project, the motorways of the sea and the current logistics project. It is very sad that he did not have time to draw up and implement a European energy policy. The one we get will not be the same.
I would like to pay tribute to him now, just at a time when we are going to need him most. I am sure that he would have been smiling from behind the lenses of his glasses if he had known the controversy and the Europeanist revision that his absence is causing.
As a tribute to him, I believe that we must continue working hard to achieve more progress and more Europe, a Europe that genuinely serves the common interest."@en1
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