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"The honourable Member is perfectly right. As the President of the European Council clearly affirmed when presenting the programme of the Luxembourg Presidency, the Lisbon strategy is a top priority of our presidency. The Council, in all its specialised configurations, is fully engaged, and will remain so, in the final weeks before the March meeting of the European Council, in the preparation of the mid-term review of the Lisbon strategy which will enable the European Council to take the requisite decisions at that meeting. The summit will focus on the need for intensified efforts to achieve the objectives of the Lisbon strategy and to arrive at tangible and specific results.
We have here before us a proposal from the Commission which will, I believe, enable us to improve the implementation of the Lisbon strategy, define more clearly the priorities of that strategy and – let me place particular emphasis on this – organise the governance of the Lisbon strategy more effectively. In fact, as you emphasised in your question, if there has been a weakness in the Lisbon strategy, it has lain in an undoubted surfeit of objectives and supposed priorities but also in defects in the governance of the process as a whole.
It is therefore up to the European Council, on the basis of what the Commission has presented to us and in the spirit of the three Lisbon pillars – economic growth and competitiveness, adherence to the social model, and sustainable development and environmental protection – to propose a more effectively structured and clearly discernible strategy, integrating the various processes that are already being pursued. I refer here to the Cardiff processes, the processes relating to sustainable development, the guidelines on employment, the broad economic policy guidelines and the like. We must therefore try to improve the coherence, visibility and transparency of the whole strategy. This is one of the main missions of the Presidency as we endeavour to propose a draft that can be accepted at the March summit."@en1
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