Barroso says employment is crucial for Europe to regain citizens’ trust
The President of the European Commission argued on Monday that the crisis economic and financial was the biggest “test of stress” to the European institutions and stressed the need to tackle the issues of employment to regain public confidence.
“We spent the greater financial, economic and social crisis since the beginning of European integration. This was biggest test of stress ever in terms of European integration,” Barroso said at the opening session of the conference “The Future of Europe is Science “promoted by the European Commission, the Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon.
Addressing the participants at the conference, Barroso said he will have the opportunity of focusing on ways that science and innovation are to affect matters that relate more to European citizens. “health, employment and, thus, society and the economy in which they live”
“And there is no alternative: we must tackle these issues, crucially employment to regain the confidence of our citizens, “he said.
According to the outgoing president of the Commission,” the reforms undertaken by the European Commission and the Member States in the past five years constitute a solid foundation for That “but” much remains to be done and the science and innovation must remain more than ever strategic priorities, “he said.
Barroso stressed that under his leadership, the Commission put science , research and innovation in the “heart of the European agenda”, in particular the establishment of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology and the European Research Council and the European participation in “big science projects like the thermonuclear experimental reactor”.
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