Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-12-01-Speech-3-085"
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. It is said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Many of the key documents of the European Union are full of good intentions. This goes for the Lisbon strategy and doubly so for the financial perspectives setting out the new financial framework of the enlarged European Union for the period 2007 – 2013.
Perhaps this is why we are now witnessing a slowing down in the economic growth of the Eurozone in comparison with our main world competitors. During the 1990s, when the 15 Member States of the European Union were making a particular effort to flood the markets of the Eastern European countries, the average annual growth in productivity was 2.3%. Now it is just 1.2% per annum and productivity in the Eurozone is more than a third lower than in the USA.
In this respect I welcome the appearance of the President of the European Parliament, Mr Borrell at the meeting of the European Council, where he explicitly pointed out the discrepancies between the Lisbon strategy and reality. This is a real threat to any kind of financial perspective if it is not backed up by real implementation. Any discussion about the new financial perspective cannot be confined to the financial frameworks and the intentions of the European Union but must consider the effective use of common resources and concrete measures to raise the level of competitiveness of the EU.
Thank you."@en1
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