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"Mr President, President Barroso, ladies and gentlemen, Europe must overcome the crisis. Europe’s economy must be founded on work. We must steer the countries of the European Union out of the current grave crisis by concentrating, as our main priority, on providing work opportunities to as many European citizens as possible. For this reason, the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) wholeheartedly supports job creation as the most important objective of the European Commission’s work programme for next year.
Europe has learnt much from the crisis. This year, we have embarked on the development of a new economic governance system in an accelerated procedure and hope that Parliament can debate the new proposals related to financial regulation and economic governance next year in a way that ensures their adoption as soon as possible.
My PPE colleagues will raise important issues for each area, and I would like to mention only a few: competitiveness must be based on innovation and research. We believe that there are not enough initiatives concerning this area in the Commission’s work programme. There is a need for the increased protection of intellectual property rights and a viable competitive European patent system, as well. We believe that the increased control of European food imports is important and that they should be subject to at least the quality requirement that the European Union expects of its own producers. We would also have liked to have seen more proposals concerning the water issue set by the Hungarian Presidency as one of the major objectives.
Ladies and gentlemen, based on the Treaty of Lisbon, a new order of the European Union’s legislative and work programme began in September this year with Mr Barroso’s speech on the State of the Union. Since the new treaty guarantees Parliament strong rights to intervene in the European Union’s programme, we believe that further measures are important. Unfortunately, previous experiences are not good. The Commission’s earlier work programmes were only partially realised according to plan. As I have already mentioned several times, I question, together with a number of my fellow Members, the point of wasting immense energy and time on many occasions each year analysing and adopting a document which, in any event, only covers the reality in part. For this reason, I would like to suggest that Parliament’s competent committee regularly examines the implementation of the Commission’s work programme in the course of the year as well, in order to better enforce the influence of the citizens we represent on the EU’s joint affairs."@en1
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