Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-01-14-Speech-2-160"
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"Mr President, may I welcome the prime minister of Greece as President-in-Office of the European Council and sincerely wish him every success, because his success will be beneficial both to Europe and to Greece.
He rightly stated that one of the basic objectives of the presidency is to promote the Lisbon strategy; Mr Prodi also had a great deal to say about this and very important it was too. However, I read in the international press today that the Commission is about to submit a report which concludes that Europe is losing its battle to acquire a more competitive economy in the world by 2010. On the contrary, growth is very weak and the political will is lacking. This Commission report also states, if the Figaro is to be believed, that it expects a twin-track Europe to emerge, with Sweden and Denmark fast-forwarding on one track and Greece, Italy and France in slow motion on the other.
What I want to ask is: first, is there a common policy for promoting the Lisbon strategy or is it a question of each country either doing what it likes or, at the very least, failing to apply any such common policy? And secondly: do you intend to apply policies that will help achieve the Lisbon objectives in all the Member States of the European Union, especially Greece?"@en1
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