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"Mr President, Chancellor, I fully agree with what the Chairman of my Group, Mr Schulz, said about the financial perspective. I sincerely hope, Chancellor, that with your negotiating skills you will show the necessary flexibility in the forthcoming negotiations with Parliament.
The Chairman of my Group also underlined, as you did, how important it is for this spring Presidency to promote more growth and more jobs. I noted that you said that a possible perspective might be 3% growth and 1% reduction in unemployment in the coming years. This is a marvellous perspective and one that I endorse, but we need to use the right tools to achieve this target. Let us do it, but let us use the right tools to achieve it.
I sent you a proposal a few days ago on a new growth strategy which the Socialist Group and the party share. Mr Schulz and I were in London just a day before Hampton Court, and there the Socialist leaders, presidents and prime ministers decided unanimously to bring before the European Union a new common growth strategy, recognising that we cannot achieve it merely by means of a European Union directive – we do not have the necessary competences. But we can do it together in a freely decided intergovernmental decision at the forthcoming spring Council meeting.
I sincerely hope that you share this vision brought to you by the Socialist governments of Europe and that you will bring the forces on the other side together, whether they be grey or of any other colour. It is the results that count, as you said. This growth strategy has shown that if we boost growth as a combination of reforms and guided demand on intelligent investment in education, in active labour market policy, in child care, in research, in small and medium-sized firms, then we can do it. But what we need are common decisions at the spring Council and guarded and guided decisions over the next three to four years.
I asked Commission President Barroso a couple of weeks ago whether we can do it. Could we make a new deal as a new start for the spring summit? I got the impression, Mr Barroso, that you said ‘let us give it a try’. You have the opportunity, and if you do it, not only will the people of Europe hear the sound of Europe, but we will hear the voice of the people and then they will begin to listen to us. And then they will be ready to discuss a new treaty for Europe. Is that not worthwhile? I think it is."@en1
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