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Transcript: Press Conference with President Bush and E.U. Leaders
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Although some of us had some differences and divergencies with the U.S. when it came to Iraq, the fact that we are co-organizing and co-sharing this very important Iraq conference is showing that, when it comes to substance, when it comes to progress, when it comes to democracy, to freedom and to liberty, both the U.S. and the European Union are cooperating closely together and working in the same direction.
So it was an excellent moment.
BUSH: Thank you, sir.
Mr. President?
BARROSO: Thank you. Thank you very much.
It was indeed a pleasure for me, for President Juncker, for all the European Union team to be here. We remember the very successful visit of President Bush to Brussels recently, to the European institutions.
We really believe the world is a better place when Europe and the United States work well together. And we can show results.
We have been together promoting democracy -- for instance, in Ukraine and Lebanon -- co-hosting now the International Conference on Iraq; we will continue our close cooperation on Iran and the Middle East; and we'll make sure that the Doha round is a success.
Today we also adopted important decisions concerning, for instance, the economic cooperation. We have decided to go even further in our economic relations.
Let me tell you that, per day, our trade is around $1.8 billion; it shows how important our relation is.
BARROSO: We will act together decisively to enhance our economic integration, namely in the field of regulatory environment. We believe a regulatory environment as much as close as possible is good for the economy of our states.
European Union is and will remain a very strong and reliable partner for the United States. It's true that we have complex systems in Europe. We are now 25 countries, very soon we will be 27, about 500 million people. And we went through a very important enlargement, that it was indeed the reunification of Europe, 25, and very soon 27, countries that were very recently divided and now are together sharing their sovereignty.
