UK PM Gordon Brown's 12 17 07 address in the House of Commons on the European Union's future priorities.

With permission Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement about the European Council held in Brussels on 14 December, which focused on two major concerns:

• 1. the reforms Europe must make to meet and master the global challenges we face - for competitiveness, employment, secure energy, climate change;
• 2. and issues of security - in particular Kosovo, Iran and Burma - that we must confront together.

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