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"The Lisbon Summit created enormous expectations. Some saw this as the ‘Employment Summit’, others as the ‘Summit for the Society of Innovation and Knowledge’. In the end, it turned out to be the ‘Internet Summit’, as it was in this area that some of the most promising promises were made, if you will forgive the repetition of terms. If only these promises could be fulfilled.
We share these expectations but we should also like to be able to congratulate the practical results achieved. On this score, only the future will tell. Yet we already regret certain weaknesses. Furthermore, the mainly socialist European leaders who met at this summit could not resist the bewitching rhetoric of promising results for which they are not really responsible, yet did not make any promises on the issue which is their responsibility, namely the actual means to achieve these results. We should also like to have seen more practical emphasis on two basic points. These are the reduction in tax and the obligation to pay employment contributions and the effective deregulation and removal of red tape, thereby stimulating entrepreneurial initiative and promoting growth. The desire to defend the ‘European social model’ is admirable. Yet this defence cannot be achieved at the expense of economic dynamism and, ultimately, the very future and quality of this social model. These thoughts are reflected in our votes and the amendments tabled."@en1
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