<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><oembed><version>1.0</version><provider_name>EU-Logos</provider_name><provider_url>https://eulogos.blogactiv.eu</provider_url><author_name>lf5422</author_name><author_url>https://eulogos.blogactiv.eu/author/lf5422/</author_url><title>Jerzy Buzek: “The Lisbon Treaty will help us deliver on citizens’ expectations. Let us be successful and not just have the potential of success”</title><html>&lt;div class=&#039;snap_preview&#039;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jerzy Buzek, President of the European Parliament delivered  a speech in the Portuguese capital at the commemorative event marking the entry  into force of the Treaty of Lisbon. President Buzek highlighted the importance  of the historical moment .&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&#8220;Recently we were standing at the Brandenburg Tor celebrating twenty years  since the fall of the Berlin Wall.  Twenty years ago, in 1989 we began a very  important process: the building of a new European identity. This time for the  benefit of us all, and not against anyone. Today, 1 December 2009, we stand  together at the Torre de Belem to mark the beginning of a new era of European  integration.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have always been a continent that looked outward, to the world outside our  borders. In the 15th century Portuguese sailors used to set off from this tower  to explore the still uncharted waters of the world.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today in the 21st century we are living in a new globalised world but we  Europeans have a new chart to guide us &#8211; the Lisbon Treaty.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The period of auto reflection in Europe is over &#8211; now we have to make use of  all the instruments and institutions that the new Treaty puts at our disposal.   Our citizens expect this of us, the European Council, European Commission,  national governments, national parliaments and the European Parliament, to do  this.  This treaty will help us deliver on these expectations.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We will be able to speak with a clearer voice to the outside world, and we  will be able to promote our values in this globalised world, values of  solidarity inside and outside the EU.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Values of solidarity, not only within the European Union but also with our  neighbours, and with the outside world. Values of human rights, and of a  particular type of social model. Values of free trade, but also aid to the less  developed countries in this world.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa once said that: &#8220;Success consists in  being successful, not in having potential for success&#8221;. Today we need more  Europe, not less, because only by working together can we face the challenges of  the twenty-first century &#8211; global warming, poverty reduction, energy security,  international finance, all need global solutions and Europe has to be a part of  the solution.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let us use the potential for success. Let us be successful.&#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
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