I would like to communicate my goals to all of you. I stand for new employment, new economic growth and brave business ideas. During the past weeks, I have shared my thoughts with journalists, professors, and citizens.

Our key role today is to establish policies for concrete measures and for new jobs. First of all, we need to create a real European single market. We are already promoting it through lower prices for mobile telephone roaming, simplification of patents, simplification of payments between countries, and even with good consumer information regarding what is wise to buy and what is healthy. We achieve this through giving information to consumers, what ingredients medicines contain. Advertising medicine needs to ease healthy consumer choices.

One of my highest priorities is encouraging youth entrepreneurship. To be an entrepreneur, it is essential to have courage and not just knowledge. Especially because of the EU’s goal in making our small and medium-sized enterprises able to export to other markets, distant markets. I would recommend from experience that education systems need to put a greater emphasis on entrepreneurship. Results of a survey of young people aged 15 to 30 years inSlovenia, show that there is great room for this; and thus, a great potential for new growth and jobs. Also, do not forget that inEuropewith 500 million inhabitants, there are 100 million people living with disabilities offering the opportunity to develop tourist activities and tourist destinations; and equally, the development of medical tourism. All of this is very important forSlovenia.

We cannot only talk about growth, but also conservation. And these two must always be combined. They are two sides of the same coin. We cannot allow populism to prosper, for populist policies to take hold that speak of European or Eurozone disintegration, and thatEuropehas no future. We cannot give in to such policies. All of us have to believe that aEuropeunited is a real opportunity.