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PRIORITIES of the POLISH PRESIDENCY Speech by Herman Van Rompuy President of the European Council to the TEPSA Conference at the College of Europe (Natolin Campus) EUROPEAN COUNCIL THE PRESIDENT EN Warsaw, 1 July 2011 EUCO 39/11 PRESSE 223 PR PCE 14 PRIORITIES OF THE POLISH PRESIDENCY Speech by Herman Van Rompuy President of the European Council to the TEPSA Conference at the College of Europe (Natolin Campus) It is a great pleasure to address this timely conference on the state of European Union affairs and the Polish Presidency in particular. I am glad to have this opportunity to visit Natolin and I should like to thank for you the invitation. Last year, I spoke also at the College of Europe, but in Bruges. Having one Institute with two campuses in two countries is a great example of European cross border cooperation! And it is a pleasure to see so many students again today, from Warsaw, from Lodz and beyond! I am aware that it is a longstanding custom of TEPSA to have biannual meetings on current EU priorities, linked in particular to the (incoming) Council Presidency. A rich tradition! You will not be surprised, though, that my perspective on the six-month timeframe is different. As permanent President of the European Council, it could not be otherwise! Although I should nuance the word "permanent": it is for a term of 2,5 years… My job is to bring an increased sense of continuity to the Union's work at the level of Heads of State and Government. As you know, the European Council does not exercise legislative functions, like the Council which Poland will chair. The European Council, bringing the Union’s highest executive leaders around the table, is more like a strategy body. Together we establish political priorities, we set the Union’s strategic course and we take responsibility in crisis situations. P R E S S Dirk De Backer - Spokesperson of the President - +32 (0)2 281 9768 - +32 (0)497 59 99 19 Jesús Carmona - Deputy Spokesperson of the President - +32 (0)2 281 9548 / 5150 - +32 (0)475 65 32 15 [email protected] http://www.consilium.europa.eu/ EUCO 39/11 1 EN It must be said that the latter function -- responding to crises -- has taken up quite some political energy in the past year and a half. There was no other choice. Yet we never lost sight of the long-term agenda -- promoting structural economic growth, establishing more strategic relationships with our partners in the world. I consider the first rotating Presidency of Poland an historic event. Poland is now Member of the Union for seven years. I will not talk in terms of seven plentiful years or seven meagre years: they were surely seven fascinating and enriching years! You have experiences of what it is like to work with 26 partners, how to contribute to agreements, how we set a common course. In the Union, the position of each is respected. Diversity is our quality; unity our strength. After thorough preparations you are ready now to take on new responsibilities – for the intense period of six months starting today, and beyond. The rotating Presidency of the Council brings a sense of ownership for all the Member States, showing visibly that the Union is a collective work, undertaken by equal partners. It is an indispensable feature of our system. My experience so far – with the previous Spanish, Belgian and Hungarian presidencies – has been very positive. While keeping the long-term European interest as our common horizon, it has been most worthwhile to feel a new impetus , the fresh desire to achieve results, a different set of qualities brought to the job every six months. That’s why I consider it of the utmost importance to establish good cooperation between the rotating and the permanent Presidency. Without cooperation and mutual trust between key players, the Lisbon Treaty cannot work. This goes beyond the formal contacts and preparations, but requires a quasi-permanent informal exchange of information and ideas. And the personal relationship with Prime Minister Tusk of trust and of common European conviction makes me most confident for the period ahead! Before getting too deep into institutional intricacies, let us go back to the heart of the matter. The European Union is not just an institutional framework in Brussels, a political machinery producing directives and redistributing funds which only we as practitioners and experts can understand. No, the Union is a political project, it embodies the common destiny of 27 states and 500 million citizens. Together we work on concrete proposals serving our citizens' prosperity and security; together we face a common future. In Poland you know this very well of course. Membership of the European Union was the crowning of a long struggle for sovereignty and freedom. In this respect, the Polish history, while being one out of 27, is truly exemplary. You experienced periods when European values were trampled, your fortune was linked to great conflicts; remember the words of Winston Churchill: "For Poland we had entered the war." Yet in difficult moments of history, your country never lost its confidence and dignity; nor its culture, language and religion; nor its own personality. The Polish people always worked to find its place back amongst the free nations. So many uprisings for democracy and justice are witness to this, so many battles for freedom and solidarity. These moments EUCO 39/11 2 EN defined your country. Ultimately, in 1989, they sealed the beginning of the end for the Cold War. They opened a new era for Europe as a whole. And since then, Poland has transformed itself into a democratic, modern and prosperous country. Your history thus constitutes a lesson of humanism. We are a subject of history, and we make history. We are a subject of change, and we make change. This fact is also the heart of the European Union: the Union allows Europeans to keep destiny in our own hands. Many of you are daily observers of EU affairs. So you surely have noticed that it is recently being written and said that the European Union is in mediocre shape. Let me share some of my own observations. It may be politically incorrect to say so, but in my view, the state of the Union is not so bad, even if the mood is not so good. I fully understand, especially in difficult times for some countries in the Eurozone, that this requires an explanation. The positive votes in the Greek parliament this week have changed the mood for the better. Political courage still exists. Nevertheless, after a year and a half in this business, I observe that when it comes to Europe and the Union, all problems -- and I do not say there are none -- are as it were transformed into some kind of drama. When Germany abstains in a vote in the UN Security Council on Libya, we were all of a sudden without foreign policy, and this notwithstanding the fact that, just days later, all key European countries were together in the Elysée to decide and agree upon military action. This absolutely cannot be compared with the divisions at the time of the Iraq war! When a country is hiring a few customs officers, then suddenly the life of the Schengen area is in danger. These incidents are added to the sovereign debt crisis in the Eurozone -- which is real but also solvable --, whereas the Euro itself is very strong. So whoever wants to judge the state of our Union has to maintain a certain distance, a certain serenity and above all: a sense of proportions. Pessimism paralyses action, or at least risks to do so. My entire career has been under the sign of a "step by step" approach. The European Union is an historically unique achievement. It has always been built gradually and it has emerged stronger from every crisis. There is no reason that this time would be different. Today's Union is a powerful political and economic bloc of 27 members encompassing the European continent. Of course more can be done and needs to be done. Yet unique achievements like 60 years of peace, the Euro, the Internal Market, or the Schengen passport union have already made a dream come true. People from other continents envy our countries for their political stability, democracy and peace, for their social system and environmental standards, for the quality of European life. We are living, to quote French author Alain Minc, in "a coin du paradis", in a little corner of paradise! We are living in a Union of values. The European dream has always been about three basic aspirations: peace, prosperity and power. This was the case back in 1950 and it still is today. Different aspects dominate at different times -- obviously peace was more important right after the war, and the power of EUCO 39/11 3 EN a common presence in the world is a stronger motif today -- but all three have been present from the start. Let me first mention peace. People sometimes say it is outdated to claim that Europe is about peace. Yes and no. "Yes", because of course, the two world wars, after which the European Community was founded, have receded into memory. But "no" also, because Europe is still there as a work of peace. Just one week ago, the Union's 27 Heads of State or Government paved the way for Croatia to become our 28th Member State; yesterday, the negotiations were formally concluded. It is a milestone. In the European Council we also saluted the step forward which Serbia took last month with the arrest of Ratko Mladic. It was a victory for European diplomacy and for the Union's tenacity in upholding our values.
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