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"Mr President, as we all know, the European Parliament has, in successive reports and motions for many years now, expressed its interest in and sensitivity towards small and medium-sized enterprises and their problems.
It has used various means to highlight the important role of small and medium-sized enterprises in creating jobs and introducing technological innovations. However, this much-vaunted interest on the part of the Member States’ governments and the Community institutions is pure hypocrisy since, to all intents and purposes, small and medium-sized enterprises are unable to access funding programmes, unable to take advantage of technological invention and technological modernisation programmes, unable to take advantage of staff education and training programmes and unable to do anything about their unfair treatment at the hands of the tax authorities. These problems could be addressed by revising the banks’ humiliating lending criteria and by making full use of associations of enterprises and chambers which promote technological development programmes and school education programmes.
The Commission’s action programmes have done little along these lines; and yet, in the Commission’s announcement and Parliament’s report, here we are promoting options which are mainly of interest to big lenders and, more to the point, we are doing so on in the name of small and medium-sized enterprises. It is a public outrage to propose promoting a single European capital market, ostensibly to serve the interests of small and medium-sized enterprises. The same applies to proposals for single European pension funds, to proposals that insurance fund reserves be channelled into high-risk financial investments and to tax cuts on profits.
Certainly, solving problems in connection with the unfair treatment of small and medium-sized enterprises by the tax authorities, simplifying and modernising patents and reducing excessive administrative expenditure and start-up formalities for small and medium-sized enterprises are steps in the right direction. But we consider that satisfying the demands of big lenders in the name of small and medium-sized enterprises is provocative and we shall vote against it."@en1
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