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Clearly, the European Commission has stated its position on the need for a balance between competition and social cohesion. However, I should like to remind you that in countries with a very high growth rate and a highly competitive environment, such as the United States of America, or in countries in Europe such as Great Britain, there are also high levels of poverty, a significant number of excluded people and acute social problems. Obviously, therefore, competitiveness alone or development alone cannot solve social problems, which are particularly complicated, given that the weakest in society cannot always reap the rewards of economic development. This is why we need a social policy in order to redistribute wealth and allow the weakest sections of society to integrate. And that is what we are constantly trying to achieve: maintaining social cohesion with no loss of competitiveness."@en1
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