Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-01-26-Speech-3-052"
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I must admit that I had prepared a different speech. However, what Mr Ferber said a moment ago somehow forces me to speak about the REACH dossier – as I am the rapporteur on it – which Mr Ferber held up as the greatest threat to the competitiveness of European industry.
I hold exactly the opposite view. I think it is always wrong to turn a specific piece of legislation into a symbol of either good or evil. In any case, I think that if REACH is a symbol, it is precisely pointing the way towards a new competitive future for Europe’s industry.
What is happening in the world to leave our competitiveness in crisis and in question? We are witnessing a great international redistribution of work, as has happened before at other times in world economic and industrial history. Europe has not yet succeeded in finding its own space, its own trump cards, in this great transformation. It identified them in the Lisbon strategy, but it has only been able to develop and expand them in a very small way.
Mr Barroso, I recognise that the list of priorities that you have indicated, for which an interinstitutional partnership ought to be established, is a fair one and I believe that it is precisely on that basis that we need to address this major turning point in Europe’s competitiveness. Our trump cards are knowledge and the environment. Europe is going to become a world leader in those areas, and it is now in a position to achieve that."@en1
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