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"Mr President, I too wish to thank the Vice-President of the European Commission, Mrs de Palacio. I can certainly subscribe to everything she has said here, especially with regard to priorities.
2005 will also be an important year, and we need to find a way to give our citizens confidence in this area of decision-making. This confidence will be brought about by focusing on priorities, on important issues, and as a consequence of this, results too will be achieved. The top priority is security, a subject that has been raised here during our discussions on solutions and decision-making with regard to the border guard force and the fight against terrorism. We must also, however, focus on local security: the security of every person’s immediate surroundings. That is something our citizens will certainly want to see. All these matters, of course, are interconnected.
Secondly, sustainable development is an important issue. We have to solve the problem of how to preserve the viability of industry and at the same time take environmental protection into account. In the future, conjoining the two will be very important in maintaining competition and conserving the environment.
The Lisbon Agenda is an important issue, but it requires concrete action. We need results in employment policy in terms of competitiveness, but the main factors in this regard are economic policy and budgetary discipline, on which subject we have heard an excellent speech just now. We must set an example here to national parliaments and national governments in maintaining budgetary discipline. We each have our own priorities and would like to see increases in the budget, but this way the budget will grow ever larger, and economic policy will slip through our fingers. Discipline must be preserved, and that will come about as a result of these same priorities. We are bound by a policy where certain matters are dealt with and others take second place, as we only have a limited number of resources at our disposal.
A healthy and sustainable economy: I was pleased to hear this point being made. In my opinion, however, if we are to have a healthy and sustainable economy in Europe, the Stability and Growth Pact must be kept as it is. It should not be toned down, nor should it be downgraded; instead, it should at least be kept as it is, and we need to ensure that it is complied with in each country in the same way. This is what will inspire confidence, not the idea that, little by little, we are beginning to downgrade the agreements we made together earlier on.
Next year will be an important year, as it is the first complete year of the functioning of a whole new Parliament and an enlarged Europe. It is with these priorities that we can show our citizens that things are progressing well, and that is a prerequisite for us to be able to continue our work."@en1
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