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"Madam President, Mr Barroso, ladies and gentlemen, the Barroso Commission and the European Parliament have been strengthened. It is, however, a sad fact that certain Members have, improperly and wrongly, allowed their view of the Commission as a whole and of the challenges facing us to be obscured by differing views on individual Commissioners.
The Commission and Parliament form a channel of communication, and we need each other. We need a strong Commission which shows initiative and which is dynamic and competent. We need a strong European Parliament; without Europe’s citizens, or their representatives, nothing should and nothing can be decided in the EU, as we must bring the European Union closer to its citizens, as well as making it more transparent and democratic. We must do everything in our power to ensure that EU policies can finally be made on the basis of the Constitution, internally, as is the case in the outside world, instead of their being based primarily on national and party politics; I say this thinking back to the comments made by Mr Schulz.
Let us turn the public into participants, and declare our goals, motives and successes. I expect of you, Mr Barroso, that you give the Lisbon and Barcelona processes practical expression and make them operational, and that you do both these things in a way people find easy to comprehend. I also expect you to eliminate obstacles within Europe and to drive forward the common foreign and security policy, as well as to ensuring that the Stability and Growth Pact remains strong, carrying out subsidiarity tests before presenting proposals, putting forward a clear and comprehensible justification for the added value of European regulations, and reaching an agreement with the Council that the 12 stars are to be visible anywhere the EU has invested euros. This is the only way in which a European awareness can be created and the distance reduced.
Around 500 Members and myself look forward to a self-confident, successful and fair cooperation. I wish you all the best."@en1
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