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"− Mr President, I wish to thank the honourable Members for their speeches, questions and proposals. I would like to answer telegraphically some of those questions.
When it comes to SMEs, the heart of the strategy, and what we are hearing from them, is that they are asking us for is a level playing field across Europe and for a reduction in the administrative burden. That is exactly what we would like to achieve.
When it comes to the agriculture, this has certainly been present in the European 2020 strategy from the outset, but we should not view EU 2020 as an exhaustive list of everything we should do in the future or an exhaustive list of how we should treat agriculture in the future.
Very soon we will have a very important debate on the budget review, and that would be the right moment to discuss the future not only of agriculture, but also of other policies, in greater detail.
I agree with those MEPs who have been calling for respect for the rules. I am sure that, if we respected them better, we would not be in this situation. We work very hard on agreeing the rules, so once we have them we definitely should respect them. The Commission will do its utmost to enforce them even better in the future.
When it comes to the division of labour – what the Commission and what the Member States should do under the EU 2020 strategy – we now have a quite detailed description of the level on which the EU should act, and on what level the Member States should act. We will elaborate a bit further on this when we come forward with a concrete proposal on how to deliver and put in place the flagship projects. This will be quite detailed. It will be a measure-by-measure description. I can assure you that it is the Commission’s utmost ambition to deliver on this very important strategy.
Part of this, of course, involves getting rid of unnecessary barriers and better using the potential of the single market, and using what Europe can offer in a much more efficient and better way. We will be doing this at the level of the Commission, but at the same time we also expect input from the Member States as to where they see that the single market could be used better and where they see that there are barriers still in place which we should work on to erase.
When it comes to economic governance and better economic coordination, we intend to use fully the Lisbon Treaty provisions and will be coming forward with initial proposals in this area this spring.
When it comes to governance and EU 2020, we are looking for an adequate balance in how to motivate the Member States in a positive way, and at the same time how to ask for better, stronger, efforts from their side. We believe that this time we have found an adequate method and that its delivery should be much better than it was before. We will, of course, be working on monitoring and evaluations, together with Parliament, so will have a very good opportunity to discuss this in detail.
When it comes to transatlantic cooperation, the Commission is committed to further advancing the Transatlantic Economic Council and its work. At the same time, we are also committed to the Doha Round because we believe that the conclusions of the Doha Round will open new doors for improved world trade and for improved situations in developing countries.
A lot of Members spoke on the issue of Greece. Here again I would like to underline that we have created a eurozone mechanism – with the IMF, but it is still a eurozone mechanism, and we have to stress that. This was the best solution we could find under very challenging circumstances.
When it comes to another argument that I have heard, which is that EU 2020 is too much on the side of
I cannot agree. We are trying to find a way to mobilise and activate the different levels through which we can achieve the most efficient actions and the best possible course of events. We would like to do this in a complementary way, so that each level supports the others."@en1
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