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"Mr President, the terrorist attack in Madrid was an attack on all of us who believe in democracy. I welcome the resolution from the spring summit to appoint a counter-terrorism coordinator. All our Member States must cooperate fully to minimise the risks for all our citizens.
My Group leader, Mr Poettering, is right: we must not equate the Arab world with terrorism. We must do all in our power to work with the many leaders and spokespersons in the Arab world who feel as strongly as we do in the West about these atrocities.
The key, of course, is resolution to the intractable problem of the Middle East. We must never forget that terrorism is rooted in poverty and social exclusion and, as we discuss the economic governance of the EU at the spring summit, we must realise that our economic growth depends on peace and stability which, in turn, depend on our efforts to ensure economic stability and growth in those parts of the world where poverty and social exclusion are the norm for millions of young men and women. Countering terrorism is in large measure countering poverty.
As far as the Lisbon agenda is concerned, I say to our Taoiseach that we have failed yet again to deliver progress on our much-quoted ambition for the EU to become the most competitive knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010. Your words, President-in-Office, about fruitful discussions, re-focusing on key issues, sustainable growth in employment etc. etc. etc., could be those of any President-in-Office over the last four years: they have all said exactly the same. I am afraid there has been no progress on practical transposition in our Member States. You have only to look at the fact that 400 000 EU-educated researchers are working in the United States today. We educate them, we give them knowledge, and then they leave. The benefit of that knowledge is developed elsewhere in the world.
President-in-Office, why did an Irish presidency choose to initiate diplomatic relations with the military dictatorship in Burma? Why now? We have avoided it for very good reasons for many years. Please answer me, but do not tell me that as President-in-Office you had no option but to negotiate on behalf of the EU. I object strongly, as I am sure do many Irish people and colleagues here, to Ireland initiating diplomatic relations with a military dictatorship that controls the Burmese against the will of its people.
Finally, may I echo the words that my colleague Mr Watson used and say 'may the road rise up to meet you' – '
. To all those involved in the Irish presidency, may you achieve the signing of the Constitutional Treaty in June. You have all our good wishes. Thank you for the progress on consultation you have made to date. Thank you, as Enda Kenny said recently in the Dáil, to the Permanent Representation and all the civil servants behind the scenes who made this technically a very good presidency."@en1
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"go ndeirig an mbóthar leat'"1
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