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"en.20111026.3.3-053-000"2
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"Mr President, I would like to confine myself this morning to one issue which concerns the use of the Flexibility Instrument for 2012 for two purposes: for the Neighbourhood Programme and for research and development (R&D). Both these core elements have a major added value at EU level and there is also talk of acute shortages in the implementation.
Last Sunday, I was an observer at the first free elections in Tunisia. When you are that close, you can see that the Arab Spring is calling for the European Union’s clout and visibility, for concrete support for further democratisation and construction. And R&D, the Seventh Framework Programme, is not only essential for competitiveness now, but will continue to be essential in the near future.
The use of the Flexibility Instrument gives us an opportunity today to send out an important signal about these two priorities. It is therefore on behalf of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) that I appeal to the Council to agree to it."@en1
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