Bernat Joan i Marí (Verts/ALE). – Mr President, according to the Lisbon Strategy, we have to build a welfare state all around the European Union that has to be a model in our globalised world. We should appeal to a social Europeanism to make Europe attractive for citizens, because life here should be better than in other parts of the world. A good standard of living is not achieved only by economic growth but also by high educational standards, lifelong learning, cultural consumption and so on.

On the other hand, we have to reduce global warming without damaging development in developing countries. We can do this in our part of the world by improving research. In developing countries, it can be done by spreading education and development aid, always related to improved educational standards. I think that a good combination of development aid and higher standards of education is the key to building a better globalised world.