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"Mr President, can I start by paying tribute to our colleague, James Elles, who for a long time has pursued this agenda of making sure that we look beyond our navel to the outside world and at the changes going on there. We should look in particular at the long-term trends he has identified, such as the emerging powers, demography changes, changes in growing population and the role of technology and the way in which it changes our society.
But if you look deeper at some of the trends that ESPAS and others have analysed, you will see that we come to one conclusion: we are getting ourselves into too much debt, we are continuing to spend more money than we have coming in, and governments and populations have to adapt. In the longer term that means harnessing the powers of technology to make sure that we have a smaller state which is really there as a safety net rather than as the universal system it has become: no longer a trampoline to help those who have fallen off the edge of society, but a trap. Let us make sure that we follow the lessons of these trends."@en1
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