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"The Brussels European Council of 4 and 5 November stated, in clear terms, that the objectives laid down in the Lisbon Agenda have yet to be achieved in the way we had hoped for. It is true that the desired knowledge-based economy has not developed as we would have liked and it is clear that the internal cohesion that such an economy would entail has not taken place.
Given that I welcome the progress towards the overall target, I understand the well-founded concern among the Member States that it should be fostered through practical and feasible measures. I believe that Parliament’s closest cooperation or the monitoring of the implementation of the Lisbon Agenda will be inadequate without the cooperation of Member State national parliaments, the direct representatives of the citizens.
I welcome the fact that the Council has placed great emphasis on the area of freedom, security and justice and I reaffirm what was expressed in a report on this subject during the last legislature, which I was fortunate enough to draw up. I should like to stress the need to respect the plurality of opinions in Europe and therefore highlight the need to ensure that the ‘Explain Europe’ initiative is not implemented so as to force the spread of a falsely narrow and rigid idea of what the European project was and will be. I voted in favour of the proposal by the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats. Thank you very much."@en1
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