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"Mr President, President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, I had the honour of participating in the meeting of the World Economic Forum as part of the Young Global Leaders programme. I know that you, Mr Barroso, were ‘Global Leader of Tomorrow’ at one time, and now several Members of the European Parliament are involved in this programme for the young.
The Economic Forum was an excellent indication that world business wants to take responsibility for the global challenges facing us. On the opening day of the Forum, an interactive Global Town Hall discussion was held. This was a seminar in which 700 decision-makers at Davos set priorities for the world’s problems using Gallup polls, and discussed the challenges they presented.
When we consider the age, sex, places of residence and range of occupations of the participants, the results are quite astonishing. What, for example, would we imagine that men between the ages of 40 and 60, mainly from the EU or North America, and half of whom are business executives, think are the greatest challenges posed by globalisation? Would they be profitability in business, flexibility in employment, increased turnover, or the China phenomenon? Not at all. The greatest challenges, as proposed by this group, were the elimination of poverty, the establishment of equitable globalisation and the management of climate change.
Global responsibility has progressed a great deal when leading businessmen say that to eliminate poverty people have to go beyond their normal way of thinking, extend the benefits of globalisation to the poorest regions and create global leadership to combat climate change. It is also worth noting that there is genuine convergence between the views expressed in Europe and North America.
Globalisation does not appear in the end to be the sort of divisive factor that the left-hand side of this Chamber believes it to be. These issues would be at the top of the agenda if the Friends of the Earth organised a similar meeting. The World Economic Forum has also proposed concrete action and a timetable to respond to the challenges. I am certain that there are also initiatives connected with the World Social Forum on which we have the same views. As the objectives are common to both, it would be more sensible to aspire to them together rather than separately. We give you in the Commission our full support in this."@en1
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