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"Mr President, the European Union’s growth rate has been falling for years, and recently it has dropped below 2% a year. The world is leaving us behind because when it comes to competing at global level, it is those who contrive to lower costs and prices and create new products that take the upper hand.
The European Union is falling behind as it has a costly agricultural sector and an erroneous, economically costly and ineffective policy of subsidising that sector. The Union also has a costly industrial sector. It is burdened by excessive social privileges, the common customs policy, and expensive bureaucratic regulations. Most importantly of all, the Union has expensive services. The services sector creates the most jobs, but cheaper service providers are prevented from accessing the market.
The attempt to hold up the liberalisation of services is reminiscent of the attempt to hold up the flow of cheap consumer goods from Asia. It is expensive and ineffective. It is expensive because it requires a sprawling administrative system, and it is ineffective because it contributes to the boom in illegal services that is detrimental to workers. Those who defend the existing European Union provisions on services argue that they are fighting for their citizens’ jobs and fighting against a rise in unemployment. My counter argument is as follows. Consider what happened in Ireland and in Great Britain. Both countries opened up their markets. Did the employment rate increase or decrease? Is unemployment rising or falling? There can be only one conclusion. The state of the services market contributed to accelerating economic development.
I believe that cheaper services are the key to speeding up the Union’s development. Cheaper services would reduce the cost of production and consumption. The market must also be extended and new technologies introduced. Cheap services are the only way to resolve, or at least alleviate, the problem of finding resources for …"@en1
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