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"Mr President, when we were at school, we would see on the wall maps of the world which would show Europe in the middle. They are slightly adjusted – the equator is moved to emphasise the centrality of this continent – but that is how we think of geopolitics. We still assume that the world is centred in Europe, and increasingly it is not. Just as we saw a huge economic and commercial shift from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic some 400 years ago, now we have seen a similar shift to the Pacific.
This is the only continent on the planet that is not experiencing any economic growth. In the circumstances there is pathos, as well as futility, in the constant – almost rather plaintive – demands of the EU authorities for more growth. Remember how the Lisbon Agenda was going to give us the most competitive economy in the world by 2020. Remember how the euro was going to add one per cent of growth to the GDP of all participants in perpetuity. The truth is that we cannot will growth. We cannot legislate for it. We cannot make it happen by bureaucratic decree. The only thing we can do is step back and allow the people who actually create jobs to get on with it."@en1
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