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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, what we are discussing takes on particular importance at a time like this, when a large part of Europe is in a situation of economic and social difficulties. Those difficulties are undermining the European Union’s competitiveness, and highlight a gap in productivity compared with the United States and Japan, low levels of investment and research and development, low levels of innovation, particularly as regards high technology, and the delocation of research activities. All of this needs to be addressed. Over and again, we have said that it needs to be done by relaunching the Lisbon Strategy, but that Strategy will continue to fade away if we do not invest seriously and forcefully in industrial policy.
I must say, Commissioner, that the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme is still below expectations. It seems to be a summary of what already exists, whilst what we need are significant innovations. This evening we heard that you will present a new communication: we hope that it contains the required innovations. Choices need to be made in the context of general economic policy, completing the internal market and the reform policies on government administration, and the taxation system and infrastructures. Aside from that, however, a governance plan needs to be worked on, in order to enable all of the existing institutional levels to interact in cooperation with one another. There needs to be awareness of the necessity of investing in sectoral policies and in horizontal policies in order to promote small and medium-sized enterprises, which form a substantial part of the European Union.
Finally, the so-called virtuous circles – universities, industrial districts and research laboratories – need to be built and enlarged. I am talking about innovation ‘incubators’, which are vital to industrial policy. In short, we need to change up a gear – as soon as possible – if we want the European Union to become the more competitive and dynamic area that we have outlined as an objective for some time."@en1
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