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"Mr President, one of the most important things for Europe in the future is to remain economically competitive. That will improve the quality of life for our citizens and make us more powerful and more influential on the world stage. As of now, we are too dependent on imports of resources and we need to look at what we have ourselves and develop it.
Firstly, we should try to eliminate the huge amount of waste that takes place from households right across the spectrum. I think the conditions are there now to really work on this. I know that from my own country, coming through the primary school into the secondary school, they have things such as the green flag. Students are coming through now who have an appreciation of the environment and climate change and are willing to play their part in recycling. I think now is the time to really home in on this and make ourselves more efficient in that regard.
Agriculture obviously is a huge area. Particularly, we need to develop a very strongly resourced CAP to ensure that we have security of food supply and also that everything is done in as environmentally friendly a way as possible. Energy, of course, is essential. While people will have reservations about certain types of energy, particularly coal because it is highly polluting, nevertheless we need to keep an open mind, particularly on shale gas, and also develop bio-energy – wave, wind and tidal, which all have potential that we can develop hugely.
That brings me to the importance of research. Horizon 2020 gives us the opportunity to do research into these areas and become world leaders in them, utilising the natural resources we have in that regard.
Finally, I just want to mention the blue economy. A few weeks ago, we had a demonstration in Brussels outlining the vast potential offered by the sea in creating all sorts of energy resources in terms already mentioned – wave, tidal and wind – but also in terms of foodstuffs and other areas as well."@en1
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