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"I thank Mrs Merkel for the commitment and enthusiasm that she expressed with regard to reviving the European project, and I hope that this momentum will be maintained for the next six months and then taken up equally seriously by the subsequent Portuguese and Slovenian Presidencies. It is difficult not to agree with the priorities that have been outlined (growth, work and foreign policy) but, as I have pointed out on other occasions and Mr De Michelis has reiterated this morning, what we need before any conceivable strategy on either economic growth or diplomatic cooperation is, in my opinion, a sound energy self-sufficiency policy if, as we have seen, all it takes is a ship or a tree – not to mention the whims of a political leader – to bring economic activity to its knees for hours across entire regions.
Such a policy does not mean just cooperating with our partners, but also having a strategic plan aiming at research into clean and renewable energies and at their use in practice, especially by industry, so as to respond both to the challenge of energy supplies and to environmental problems. The EU has a duty to its own citizens to solve this problem, and it can set a good example that its international partners can follow for everybody’s benefit."@en1
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