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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union definitely needs renewed impetus in order to bridge that gap, that divide that exists in relation to the world’s other strong, dynamic, competitive economies: I am not just referring to the traditional ones, but to the new ones, too, which have made an appearance on the international stage. Europe is therefore risking a great deal if it is unable to keep pace and to modernise by giving itself that impetus and that extra something that is being requested of it, not least through this debate. It is in danger of losing that compatibility that it has always been able to demonstrate between economic, productive and industrial growth and, at the same time, social cohesion and the ability to promote employment and a more inclusive kind of growth.
I believe that this ‘extra something’ requires two elements. Firstly, we need to take action regarding new factors of economic and employment growth: human capital, the training of human capital, the enhancement of people’s abilities and skills, and technological innovation, which is also understood to mean the ability to transfer the results of research and of what knowledge today places at our disposal into production processes. There is a second element, however, which I should like to mention in closing, and which is key to overcoming this challenge: Europe needs to work together more! Europe needs to provide itself with this strategic ability that is a common outlook. Twenty-five national plans are weakening our ability to grow together: we need one outlook, a more univocal outlook. We need, in short, more harmonised policies in the fields of taxation, of employment and of industrial policies."@en1
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