Name: 欧州2010 - 欧州2020年戦略の実施。主要な次のステップ (Europe 2010 - Implementing the Europe 2020 Strategy: Key Next Steps)
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Good morning everybody and welcome to the closing plenary.

I think my job as moderator today is to -

with the help of four fellow revolutionaries

that might still be in the complacency of Europe’s...

and we really want to be as challenging as possible

about what in the light of the events of the last few days here in Europe,

what is working and what is isn’t and what are the really tough challenges,

Europe needs to face to get back to growth.

And in that sense I want to see if we can start picking up

some of the themes I’ve heard uttered by many of you in the

Where you don’t buy the idea that Europe will just weather this crisis.

It was like a bad cold and business will be back to how it was before.

I think many of you have been saying this was a pretty major

thing and it’s brought long term consequences

and I want to try and get at some of that in this closing plenary.

We’ve got just the right people to help us do it.

From the left, if I can - or from my right rather, your left,

if I can introduce Bozidar Djelic, the Deputy Prime Minister

for European integration and Minister of Science and Technological

Development of Serbia and a young global leader -

So still a youth voice for six more months.

Let me explain I’ll move from young global leader to middle-

Valdis Dombrovskis, the Prime Minister of Latvia;

Dalia Grybauskaite, the President of Lithuania,

Vincent Van Quickenborne, the Minister of Economy and

So we’ve got four leaders and I'm going to, if I may,

Madame President, start with you and I'm going to throw a tough one

at you which I'm going to repeat to several others on the panel

which was you’ve worked very hard for Lithuania to

Given the events of the last few days where after all

what was the prize you were seeking, stability, growth, reform,

those were supposed to be the rewards of getting into Europe?

Looking today, did you get what you expected?

I think we got everything we expected and more.

In addition, of course the journey was long, about 10 years,

for us and in our region we did a huge amount of reforms,

democraticize our society, and practically introduce market economy.

But of course it was a fast, very rapid, robust,

and socially tense period. It cost a lot.

And we thought that after we joined the European Union

at least the hardest work will be done but it looks that

everyday new challenges are falling on us and the road

towards membership was worth mainly because we were capable

to reform ourselves as much as we would like and as deeply

And this experience of reforming fast, taking challenges,

openness, and courage to talk with people openly what is

necessary to do, helping already now than all of us in our region

started to feel global problems and failures already by

And having that in mind and having this experience of

managing ourselves, already in 2009 we took initiatives and adjusted

our economy and reduced our spending through all our economy

including real salaries, real pensions, real pays in

social benefits by 4% of GDP in one year.

And of course our economy is very small, of course we are a

very open society and economy, of course we depend very much

on external markets but still taking into account global pressures,

national governments and national politicians

can still manage a lot inside the country if decisions are at least

This is not easy, any government pays the price.

I think, for that, we’re still not paying

for free governments but we’re already losing and our government is

losing credibility because of difficult measures but necessary measures.

So from outside we look as country which is capable to manage,

inside people are angry but that probably is an objective reason

Why I'm saying that the road towards membership was perfect

school which helped us to manage today’s situation where

we understood that we can rely first on ourselves, only then

second on the European Union and that is an experience which

Well that’s of course fascinating but not the answer one might have

expected a year or so ago because basically you're arguing the journey

to join Europe was what sort of gave you the training

and hardened you and gave you the political capacity to take difficult

and unpopular decisions but Europe itself is not the prize that’s worth it,

it was the journey that gave you these strengths and capabilities.

Yes and no, our journey was important but also if to take

the messages now that for example during the huge downturn and fall,

today annually the assistance from the European funds, for example,

practically amounts to 25% of annual our budget, that’s significant assistance.

Prime Minister, you have been - and Latvia have been very,

Does that look quite such a good idea as it did a few months ago?

Well certainly, our plans as regards Euro has not changed,

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