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The very title of this report, ‘Growth and employment initiative – measures on financial assistance for innovative and job-creating small and medium-sized enterprises’, is sufficient reason for us to vote against this text.
The rapporteur knows, as everybody does, that ‘financial assistance’ to companies, innovative or not, does not create jobs. He knows that the so-called small businesses are generally subsidiaries of large financial groups. And he knows that these groups pocket this aid in order to increase their profit. And, when the assistance stops, they shut up shop without even feeling obliged to reimburse the aid given, such as, in France, Daewoo in Lorraine or Mitsubishi in Brittany, which closed their factories, making hundreds of workers redundant.
The European Parliament, however, is still being asked to endorse, on the basis of representative democracy, a practice that only benefits industrial and financial groups, and certainly not the unemployed.
For our part, we refuse to take part in this trickery. And if the European institutions have funds to give away, they should go to public services since, in all the countries of Europe, there is a shortage of health staff, teachers and public service personnel."@en1
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