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To implement the European Green Deal, ensuring the climate transition is just and that nobody is left behind, enabling the EU to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 and ensure ambitious progress towards that goal by 2030, preserve bio-diversity, reversing deforestation, making mobility smarter and more sustainable and securing our natural resources;

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To shape Europe’s Digital Decade, we will work to create a truly functioning single market for digital services within safe and ethical boundaries, devising a framework for trustworthy artificial intelligence, developing European leadership with digital targets for 2030 and a vibrant data economy, developing an EU-wide framework for secure public electronic identification, strengthen privacy in electronic communications and develop the EU’s cybersecurity competences and resilience, notably in finance, while pursuing fair digital taxation; we will continue to push forward digitisation notably with regard to education, training and health as well as to Europe’s digital sovereignty and innovative capacity;

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To deliver an Economy that works for people, ensuring that the recovery reaches the whole society, by deepening the single market and strengthening our industries, striving for more social fairness and prosperity, mitigate the negative consequences of the crisis for vulnerable social groups, renew our commitment to a vibrant and economically strong cultural sector. At the same time, deepen the Economic and Monetary Union, strengthen the resilience and sustainability of Europe’s banks and capital markets, ensure more transparency on the taxation of multinational businesses; and ensure fair competition within the EU and on the global stage;

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To make Europe stronger in the world, we will strengthen Europe’s brand of responsible leadership globally and strong partnership; we also stand ready to give a strong renewed impetus to our transatlantic relations. We promote international trade rules that are properly enforced and provide for a level playing field;

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To promote a free and safe Europe, we will work to agree on a new pact on asylum and migration, to ensure migration is addressed in a comprehensive way, and the effective control of our external borders; protect free movement through strengthening the Schengen framework; enhance Europe’s response to health crises. We will act decisively to prevent the spread of terrorist content and child sexual abuse online;

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To protect and strengthen our democracy and defend our common European values, we will continue strengthening the EU’s capacity to uphold and protect the rule of law and fundamental rights and freedoms and protecting citizens against emerging threats and crimes. We will improve the rules on European political parties and foundations, as well as on political advertising. We will ensure greater cooperation in gathering evidence in criminal proceedings and take new steps to pursue equality for men and women in the workplace.

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To the implementation of the roadmap towards the introduction of new own resources;

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To work for a Europe free from discrimination, with equal rights and opportunities for all;

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To pursue reinvigorated enlargement and neighbourhood policies and a comprehensive strategy with Africa;

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To tackle money laundering and the financing of terrorism, tax fraud, evasion and avoidance as well as ensuring a sound and fair tax system;

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To engage with citizens so they have a greater say on the future of Europe including via the upcoming Conference on the Future of Europe.