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Mr President, rapporteur, Mr Buzek, it has been a pleasure to work with you and also with the shadow rapporteurs. I believe that there has been good feeling, a positive relationship and a spirit of consensus, which we in my group thank you for.
We doubly regret not having been able to achieve a separate budget line for renewable sources of energy. There is currently no way for the European citizens to know how much money is spent on solar energy or wind power. We do know, however, that far more is spent on nuclear energy. That is a political problem, it is a real problem, because, in the short and medium term, in a few years’ time, we will have to deal with the energy crisis precisely by means of renewable energy and efficiency.
It is also a transparency problem. There has been a serious transparency problem, because we have not been able to find out how the money has been spent, not just in the case of energy, but also in many other areas of the Sixth Framework Programme. That has very much restricted the political debate in this House.
I hope that people will be able to know how much money is spent on preventive and public health and how much money is spent on many other sectors. That information has not been available so far. I hope that this can be sorted out in the future.
The Seventh Framework Programme reflects all of the European Union’s opportunities and weaknesses. These same contradictions and opportunities reflect the European Union’s current crisis: the crisis of a Europe that wants to do certain things, but is unable to do them.
A Europe that has goals and objectives in terms of innovation, technology and the economy, which wants to be a world leader, but which has great problems providing the money and getting States to commit themselves beyond their own narrow national interests.
The Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance believes that the Seventh Framework Programme offers a great opportunity to promote innovation, to promote a new Europe, based on clean technologies and the knowledge of thousands and thousands of small companies, laboratories and young people, and to promote a future that, at one and the same time, creates employment, social cohesion and sustainability.
That is where the future lies. I do not know whether we will be able to achieve it. I do not know whether we will be able to leave behind a past dominated by a heavy and dirty industry, based on big interests and monopolies of big companies. It remains to be seen whether this Seventh Framework Programme responds to these challenges.
The first challenge: basic and fundamental science. We have created the European Research Council, made up of twenty-two people of high prestige. We are delighted; that is an important challenge. We believe that fundamental and basic science must be one of the great priorities.
Another priority is to open up the doors of research and science to small and medium-sized businesses throughout Europe. The situation in this area has been poor, since the participation in the current programmes by small and medium-sized businesses and small laboratories is less that 10%. We have proposed an amendment aimed at achieving a minimum participation of 15% in all programmes. Parliament has the opportunity to open up the programme to everybody.
We have the challenge of innovation. Technological innovation means promoting the flow of information and sharing information. Important European and US daily newspapers recently said that, in Europe, new investments were being made in computer and technology companies, precisely because there was more flexibility in that field. More flexibility and fewer obstacles to the flow of information, fewer intellectual property barriers. We are going to promote this exchange of information. We are going to promote this flow of information. We are going to create thousands and thousands of clusters of small businesses and we are going to be up to the challenge of creating this social cohesion and fabric based on knowledge.
One of the challenges has been to increase the participation of small businesses and to create this cohesion. Another challenge has been the environmental crisis. This also stems from our current energy crisis. We profoundly regret the current rejection and marginalisation of renewable energies and efficiency within the current programmes."@en1
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