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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to take this opportunity to point out that, as Mr Prodi explained in his letter to the President of Parliament dated 20 February, he could not be here today as he had long-standing engagements with the Prime Minister of Romania and the President of Côte d’Ivoire. As it is unfortunately impossible for Mr Prodi to be in two places at once, he is not in the House today.
I prefer not to comment on the absence of the Council. I can certainly say, however, that we all like to have the three institutions together in this House. We would have welcomed the Council’s presence.
When it comes to the issue of employment and growth, ladies and gentlemen, I am not going to discuss the question of the Super-Commissioner. It will be for the incoming Commission to decide on how to organise a Commission of 25 members. According to the Treaty of Nice, the new President will have extensive competence in that regard. I think it is possible for it to be very well organised and to function very well. A 25 member Commission does not necessarily spell trouble. The opposite is actually the case.
Ladies and gentlemen, I do fully agree with you on the need to find a way of strengthening industrial policies. Mr Liikanen has worked hard on this over the years. It stands to reason, however, that it is essential to make further progress on this in the light of the new phenomenon of globalisation. It is also essential to develop external trade, as the two are closely linked.
The first issue, competitiveness and cohesion, involves both the aforementioned aspects. There is discussion of matters such as access to public markets and trans-European networks. There is discussion of the growth measures associated with the policy and strategy for growth. This relates to decisions taken at Lisbon and to the proposals made at the last European Council in Brussels. Issues such as moving forward with proposals concerning the interaction between industrial policy and other Community policies feature also. There are proposals to improve and simplify legislation relating to key industrial sectors. The aim is to strengthen competitiveness in sectors such as the automobile industry, construction, the cosmetics industry and the information society. As regards employment, there is also discussion of issues relating to the social aspects, amongst others. In short, I would like to say that many political measures are being considered with precisely this objective in mind.
As I said, Mr Swoboda is absolutely right. We need to restore growth. We need to achieve strong growth levels in order to move forward and absorb the new Member States. We need enlargement to be successful. We all hope and expect it will be."@en1
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