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"Mr President, Mr Verhofstadt, I should like, while thanking Mr Verhofstadt for his excellent and determined speech, to look again at two aspects.
The first aspect is the time factor. Mr Verhofstadt emphasised the problem of the Lisbon process. We have no time to lose. Five years for the Community patent is stupid. Furthermore, I should like to say that the Heads of State or Government have a very great responsibility regarding the financial perspective with, for example, the research programme which has less money, in real terms, in 2007, 2008 and 2009 than in 2006. There is surely a basic contradiction there between talk and reality. I think that the method too – open coordination – has been shown to be inadequate. The instruments of Community policy, therefore, are not supported in the budget. Consequently, it is not possible to make a policy that is grounded in real circumstances.
The second aspect on which I should like to elaborate, very briefly, of course, is the social aspect. We have spoken of the rejection of the Constitution. It is true, and you quite rightly made reference to it, that the social aspect was there 50 years ago: there was hope of social improvement after the war. Nowadays, people do not have that feeling. Therefore, one priority would be, in the same way that the Europe of monetary unity was created from the European currency snake, to create a European social snake that would make it possible to realise tangible achievements in this field too."@en1
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