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"Mr President, I would like to begin by thanking Commissioner Liikanen and the rapporteurs for their contributions. It takes some courage to say there is a very serious risk of de-industrialisation.
The desire to build a powerful industry was at the heart of the ECSC and then of the European Economic Community. But we have not had an industrial policy for more than ten years now.
How can we fail to question a profoundly biased position, which sets the creation of the single market against the role of the State, horizontal action against sectoral action? Each of our Member States is managing its restructuring as it is able. There is no desire to promote the European productive system as a whole.
The definition of an industrial policy is therefore becoming a matter of public interest. We must make it a social choice. It will be impossible for European growth to recover without boosting industry. It would, moreover, be foolish to count on services alone, because it is innovation and productivity, in industry and around it, that create the added value necessary for services to grow. If national policies continue to diverge, Europe will be incapable of being a base camp for our enterprises in globalisation and the challenge of competitiveness will be lost. So I am for entrepreneurship, without a doubt, but I think enterprise can only develop if we create the collective conditions for growth in Europe. That is the advantage of the action plan that has been suggested to us, that is why we need sectoral European projects, a revision of the guidelines for competition policy and Community aids, a commercial policy that is more favourable to our development, and the ability to create partnerships around territorial communities. So far as small businesses in particular are concerned, creating them is not enough. Europe’s problem is that they are not growing.
Finally, it is good to measure the effects before legislating, but we must not over-regulate either. The important thing now is to try to build European leaders that will be the foundations for sustainable development. I will end with a word about method. This recovery will not be possible without involvement and I therefore call for a strategic dialogue between both sides of industry, public authorities and the Community institutions."@en1
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