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"President Barroso, the Lisbon Treaty will be ratified and will enter into force within a few months. That is my hope. It is clear from your programme and your speech today, however, that you want to strengthen the European Parliament’s powers right away. I agree, because we can no longer go back to the time when the future of Europe was cooked up between the Council and the Commission, while the European Parliament was given the role of a mere onlooker.
I believe, Mr Barroso, that your next mandate will be decisive for consolidating this new institutional balance between the Commission, the Council and Parliament. Our support is not, therefore, a blank cheque, but an investment.
Our democratic tradition, the protection of human rights, and innovations in the production of cleaner forms of energy and better environmental policies are distinctive European features, but nothing makes us stand out from the rest of the world as much as our social policies. I must therefore express our hope that the Commission over which you will preside, I am sure, will assume the responsibility of protecting, consolidating and improving the European social model and promoting gender equality.
Before I finish, I would like to emphasise that I have made a note of what you said today, your commitments for the future. You can count on the vote of the Portuguese Socialists. However, you can also count on a relationship that will certainly be loyal, but very demanding as well during your next term of office.
I wish you good luck and success in your work."@en1
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