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". – I thank Mr Gasòliba i Böhm and Mrs Randzio-Plath for the remarks they have made. I stress the fact that progress made since Lisbon has been insufficient. In the area of financial services, for example, the Commission intends to have a mid-term review meeting in February next year to stimulate more political interest in perfecting the internal market and achieving the difficult targets we were set by the Lisbon European Council.
But I stress that we have not done what we should have. Considerable difficulties remain and we must use the meeting in Lisbon to make further progress. It would be a good thing if Ecofin ministers were present in Barcelona so that they could do, on the spot, what members of the European Council want them to do. So far members of the European Council have engaged in laudatory statements but when ministers have to deal with the subjects at hand the political will seems to evaporate. If the Ecofin ministers were to be present at the Barcelona Council perhaps they could solve these problems there and then. In the case of patents, the European Council has instructed the Council to come to a decision before Christmas this year. I am not optimistic. That underscores the need for the Barcelona European Council to be practical and emphasises the need to make more progress than have been made up until now."@en1
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