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"President Van Rompuy, you will not be surprised that both I and my whole group are very disappointed with the results the Council has produced. You said in your reply a little while ago that the Council is keenly aware of the balance of the Commission proposal in economic, ecological and social terms, but the results show a rather serious neglect of that balance. You have indeed achieved results in the areas of labour market and research and development. You have preached the status quo on climate policy. The 2020 objectives have long been accepted in this Parliament and in the various European institutions. In my view at least – and this is actually a real disgrace – you have failed to respect the objectives on poverty, based on the fallacy that further consideration is needed. You have tended to gloss over the disagreement that undoubtedly surrounds this social objective in the Council. I think this is most lamentable, and indeed it is a slap in the face for the 80 million poor in the European Union.
To your credit, you have always played your role with both modesty and ambition. Modesty in that you are absolutely not presumptuous in the role of President of the European Council, and ambition in that you say your role mainly consists in developing a long-term strategy and rolling that out over the coming years. Well, this will be your test: the EU 2020 strategy and the objectives in all those possible areas. You have your resit in June. You have our support, but this strategy does need to contain clear objectives on poverty."@en1
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