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"Mr President, Prime Minister, Madam President, just as it did seven years ago, the Portuguese Presidency faces some major tasks and major challenges.
I am convinced that the European Treaty will be adopted in a good atmosphere and with consent, providing a basis for effective and efficient management of the EU. This is the most important matter today; because only then can Europe gradually become a political power and have a positive impact on the fate of the world.
But economic power in the EU is always something essential, and today this is even more true than it was seven years ago. We are faced with the challenges of globalisation and we wish to become, and I quote ‘the most competitive knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth, with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion’. But today we know how difficult that is. So a social Europe increasing employment and also battling against climate change, which it was not seven years ago, must be a Europe of a completely free market. An open market, a market free of protectionism and monopolies. We owe this to our citizens, if we wish to act on the principles of the Lisbon Strategy in the sphere of competition, innovation and progress. Let us also remember that management of the Strategy’s guidelines from a free-market position has worked much better than management from Member State level.
And lastly, a third matter – our success depends to a large extent on relations with our neighbours. I congratulate the Portuguese Presidency on the far-reaching rapprochement on the EU’s southern borders, but we should not for a minute forget the eastern dimension, especially as the results of fair and free elections in Ukraine have presented us with the chance of a democratic, free-market and pro-European stabilisation of the eastern border of the European Union. Elections were held just two and a half weeks ago, and it is worth proclaiming this in the European Parliament."@en1
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