Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-02-09-Speech-1-107"
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"Mr President, this report is, in my view, a modest sign of a favourable development. One of the major problems in the developing world was – and still is to a great extent – the absence of a truly free market economy.
In practice, socialistic and collectivistic experiments have generally exacerbated the problems rather than offered a solution to poverty. There appears to be a gradually growing consensus that governments alone will not bring universal happiness, and we have allowed free initiative to play a role. This is a positive development, and one that can only be applauded.
As the report states, there are different ways of reforming state-owned undertakings. Nobody can be opposed to gradual change. We should only add a word of caution with regard to obstacles as a result of all kinds of intermediate levels of government intervention which people might try to incorporate. It is, at any rate, positive that there is a willingness to provide small- and medium-size companies a role, both
and in the European Union. In my view, it is of the utmost importance for there to be a thorough and timely evaluation of the course of affairs, with no taboos, such as corruption, excessive bureaucracy, administrative inefficiency or even sheer incompetence. Moreover, this should not only apply to local governments, but also to NGOs and similar organisations, because, where dysfunction is concerned, these are only rarely called to task."@en1
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