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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe’s ongoing commitment to fostering increasingly open markets must not prevent Europe itself from promoting its own interests in this globalised world. The Lisbon Strategy represents an ambitious target on which we can all agree, and enables us to take up the challenge that the European Union’s competitors have set us.
We must bear in mind, however, that the great trade and development game is often not played on a level field, and this lack of reciprocity, even though justified by the fact that many countries have started developing late, penalises our production systems and has serious social consequences. While maintaining our commitment to a multilateral approach, we must also pursue bilateral agreements if necessary. Our policy is one of opening up the market, steadily reducing customs duties, and creating a level playing field for competition. In this context, our policies on innovation, the opening-up of markets and support for the restructuring of ageing and no longer competitive productive sectors should go hand in hand with measures to safeguard intellectual property and with commercial protection more generally, as indicated in the Green Paper and acutely taken up in the Caspary report."@en1
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