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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would first like to congratulate Mrs Vlasto on her report. It is certainly clear that we all need to be aware that SMEs and SMIs play an important role not only in the economy, but also in society, by promoting economic and social cohesion.
However, the scope for modernising an economy and stabilising a society is very much dependent on institutional conditions and on having a clear, accessible and above all appropriate legal framework. The single market and the total achievement of economic and monetary union, the enlargement of the European Union and the forthcoming establishment of a Euro-Mediterranean area will increase the size of this market and thus change the rules. This globalisation of markets has a marked impact on the competitiveness of Europe’s companies, which need to adapt their strategy by incorporating into their analytical data the strategic advances made by their competitors in third countries and competition from markets in third countries which they want access.
We have found that Europe’s companies are not sufficiently internationalised, neither within the single market nor outside the European Union. That is why companies need more favourable and above all more appropriate regulatory conditions to be put in place as soon as possible. In particular, these conditions need to improve market access and provide for additional measures for enterprise partnerships at international level.
SMEs also need to come up with new forms of work organisation, but these changes should in no case be at the expense of workers’ needs in terms of security. It is essential to encourage workers to adapt their skills to the needs of the company and to consider training as an investment for companies and an added value for employees.
Furthermore, SMEs make a contribution to Europe’s cultural values and to increasing skill levels. They are the section of our economy that we need to promote, as stated at the Lisbon Summit, but we need to act quickly, because our slowness is suffocating them. When confronted with economic reality, our companies need deeds more than words. We need to be as efficient as they are. This is already clear in the Sixth Framework Programme on Research. We now need to pursue that coherence."@en1
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