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Mr President, I would like to welcome the President of the Commission and the President-in-Office of the Council to our Chamber today.
It is not often that you hear people in this Chamber speak about a vision; about bringing forward an ideal that is not swallowed up in bureaucratic detail or in the rehashing of old ideas. To that extent I would like to pay tribute to President Barroso for having the courage, politically as well as administratively, to come forward with what is truly a vision for where Europe should be in the next five to ten years.
I particularly welcome the fact that he has moved away from the old convention that the Commission was above politics, because he is talking about a Commission that will be more politically focused, that will respond more to the needs of the people and the citizens within the European Union, and that can give leadership to those people within the European Union.
Rather than go back over everything that has been said by my colleagues, I would like to make three very brief points. If we want to play our part on the world stage we must first get things right within our own Union. We must ensure that there is a certainty of ideology, a certainty of programming and a certainty of strength within our own Union before we can spread that message further abroad.
Secondly, ultimately the only thing that succeeds in any political forum or any political life is when people on the ground feel their lives are improving because of the decisions that are being taken. When we speak about solidarity in this room, we very rarely mention the solidarity of ensuring that there is equality of opportunity, equality of investment, equality of education and equality of training for each and every one of our citizens. In every area where there has been growth in economic terms or in terms of social development, those have been the key elements for driving that force.
The last point I would like to make is this: never forget our responsibility to Africa. Today, millions of people are dying because of conflict, millions are dying because of starvation and millions more will die over the next number of years because of AIDS. We must be the global leader as regards finding solutions for the problems in Africa. We must live up to our goals and our responsibilities in that sense."@en1
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