Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-10-23-Speech-2-069"
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"Mr President, I would like to say to the President-in-Office of the Council: what a wonderful summit. I never doubted that you would make it, but it is one thing not to doubt and another to do it, and you did it. Congratulations.
I do not know if colleagues know: it is a bit of a landmark in history. On the first day, we got a new Treaty of the real world. I know that all the maximalists here do not think it is the most beautiful treaty they have got, but the real world is not the most beautiful world you can get. So what you need is an effective treaty, a treaty of clear values – and you have got it.
On the second day, friends, we got a direction – on the first day a treaty, on the second day a direction – which deals with what people would like us to do: the real world. What you said on the second day was that we want a Europe leading globalisation to be more human, to be more inclusive and to base it on our social coherent values. What you said was that the Lisbon process is not only a process for a few, but the guideline for the external direction of the European Union, which says that it is not only about being the world’s strongest economic power, it is also by understanding that the world will only be more cohesive by basing it on a social market economy.
That is what I want to underline to you today. I want to thank the Presidency, not only for the first day but also for the second day, because the conclusion of the second day was that this European Union is not about market societies. It is about social market economies, which means that we are frontrunners in uniting social issues with economic competitiveness. Well done, President-in-Office – and friend, if I can say that – because that leads me to my third and last message.
Let us give the Portuguese Presidency its last summit in December: not only where a Portuguese Presidency will formally sign the Treaty, but also where we confirm the Lisbon Process in a well-done way. So let us go. Let us move. That is what people expect of us."@en1
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