Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-03-13-Speech-1-055"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-03-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Special European Council (23-24 March 2000 in Lisbon)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000313.2.1-055"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-03-13-Speech-1-0562
lpv:speaker	lp:Malcolm Harbour2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, along with my colleagues, I would like to welcome the very clear document that the Portuguese Presidency has given us today. I want to emphasise what I believe is the real challenge which will face you and your colleagues when you sit down at the end of this month to discuss the presidency's proposal: namely how to change our whole attitude and thinking about entrepreneurship, about encouraging people to go out and start the new businesses that we now acknowledge are the engines of the new economy. It is sad for Europe that it has actually needed the stimulus of the "knowledge economy" to realise what has been clear for the last decade or more, that our economy is not adequately geared towards encouraging those small entrepreneurs to come into the market, to take the risk to set up new businesses. But it is not just the risk-takers who need to be encouraged. It is everybody who is in a job working in an organisation. In the new economy we want to give those people the opportunities to start businesses themselves; to go and work for the new growing businesses; to have more control over their working lives; to truly achieve their potential. Think how many people are working in large companies, not using all their skills, trapped in large organisations, worried about moving because they cannot take their pensions with them, concerned not least about unemployment. One of the keys to mobilising this type of risk-taking is to move towards such full employment that people feel they can take that personal risk. However, I would conclude by asking: which is going to come first? Can we really achieve that full employment without unleashing that entrepreneurial talent? If we wait for that to happen, I fear the great objectives you have set before us will not be achieved."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Japan (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2000-04-02)3 member; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-09-13--2001-01-16)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Harbour (PPE-DE )."1

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