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I hope the Commission’s reputation will improve now that five of its members are going to be Ministers of Economic Affairs or Foreign Affairs Ministers in their own countries. We are very proud that they are being drawn from the Commission to fill the highest posts in the new governments of some countries. We hope, and I trust, that the new Commissioners who have arrived here will include among them some future Prime Ministers or Foreign Affairs Ministers of their countries. This is the Commission’s job: to establish a firm bond between the various countries, with the national governments seeing the Commissioners as a kind of lifeblood helping the country to develop.
As for the other observation you made, Mr Berg, on the matter of relations with the Member States and the effectiveness of our actions, I would just like to emphasise one thing: the consistency of the actions and programmes we have undertaken over these last five years. We have not always been successful, and the Council has not always matched our pace, but the Commission has never deviated from its own path for a second. I would recall that, if we had been able to impose our proposals, or if our lead had been followed, the Lisbon strategy would have given our European Union some very different results.
I would like to take a moment to reply further to Mrs Kinnock. I hope that for the next term of office – indeed, this is something I am announcing here to you – there will be a specific directorate for Africa within the Development Directorate because, in the development context, Africa has to be a particular duty of ours. Africa is our responsibility. On other continents there are shared responsibilities and complex situations, but Africa is a specific task for us."@en1
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