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"President Buzek, President Barroso and, of course, also President Van Rompuy, we are delighted to have you here with us today. Your comments at the beginning of the debate made it clear that you wish to set to work ambitiously, but also that you wish to perform your role as intended in the Treaty of Lisbon. I should like to congratulate you on this in advance.
It is important that you are here in connection with the forthcoming 2020 strategy, because it is crucial for re-establishing Europe’s role in the world. Mr President, and here I address President Barroso as well, you know what our priorities are. They centre on a green, social, market economy. This means that our foremost task should be to get small and medium-sized enterprises, as the powerhouse behind our job creation, back on their feet again. We are not talking about just our trade and services here, but also about our European industry, which we have to make competitive again on the world stage. We are also talking about our agricultural sector and high-quality food production, which are also competitive on the world stage. That means that we need SMEs with knowledge, innovation and sustainable technology at their core.
The 2020 strategy must be built on such a foundation. Such a foundation means an exit strategy that will go hand in hand with a strong stability and growth pact and with the necessary reform of Member State governments’ spending. Mr President, the old Lisbon Strategy contained too many vague objectives and demonstrated the failure of the open coordination method. Therefore, my question to you is: what specific objectives are you going to bring in to force the Member States, ultimately, to show real commitment to this new strategy, while remaining within the limits of the Treaty of Lisbon when it comes to subsidiarity?"@en1
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