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"Mr President, the Hampton Court summit showed that the European Union needs fundamental reform. The European Union needs to harmonise research and development, to significantly increase expenditures on education, to liberalise services and put in place a common European energy policy, and it needs all of these at the same time. We have the diagnosis, but European leaders have so far failed to provide the answers.
We know what we should do, but not how these aims can be achieved. We do not have the resources to do it either. We cannot have more Europe with less money. Agreement has still not been reached on the Financial Perspective 2007–2013, which could be a disaster for us, the new Member States, as we stand to lose two-thirds of our possible financial support. This is why the financial directive is so important for us.
I also think it is important, since Mr Tony Blair has attacked the common agricultural policy, that the way forward for us is not to demolish existing Community policy, as cohesion policy and the common agricultural policy are major achievements of the European Union. Rather than demolishing these, more Community policy should be implemented in other areas. The big question is how to do all this.
Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány proposed that, alongside Community policies, we should establish coordinated cooperation, which would mean harmonising national policy in the different areas. This would not mean new Community policies, but would help to improve cooperation, be it on energy, be it on research and development. I call upon Mr Barroso and the Commission: let us help Europe heal its current crisis and let us move forward in the area of coordinated cooperation."@en1
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