Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-03-09-Speech-3-290"
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"Mr President, it is difficult to overstate the importance of this debate in the current hand-wringing over the Lisbon Agenda. The reality is that if we do not invest in research and, more importantly, involve the business community in that research process, we will not upscale our economies.
The pan-Union coordination adds a clear value. So it is all the sadder that the Commission proposals – which I broadly support – are under threat from my own UK Government, with its insistence on cuts to the EU budget and with little detail on where the axe should fall.
I support the broad thrust of this report and would add my words of congratulation to the rapporteur, with the rest of the House. I have some reservations about the details and I hope that our amendments will strengthen the report tomorrow.
I would, in supporting the Commission, particularly stress the importance of simplifying the procedures in FP7, because the message I have heard loud and clear from Scotland is that the administration and the bureaucracy have been major off-putting factors in previous framework programmes.
From what the Commissioner has said this evening, I think that message has been received loud and clear, although I look forward to receiving his actual proposals."@en1
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