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Thank you. I have no doubt that achievements in innovation, the skill to make use of them and the capacity to revive the entrepreneurial environment, particularly in the small and medium-sized enterprises sector, will establish Europe’s place in global economic competition. Europe must adopt a proactive and leading position on global economic and social regulation. Thus, for example, if we wish to catch up with the USA in the sphere of innovation where, according to an assessment by the European Commission, we are currently lagging behind by 50 years, it is vital to change existing relations between science and business, and between business and the regulatory role of the state, as well as the models for funding science. Restrictions, not lack of enterprise, are the reason why the majority of Europe’s residents want to be employees and not employers. We welcome the report’s emphasis on the role of the common market in fostering entrepreneurial activity. The spheres in which the common market is not functioning properly are services and the free movement of labour. A task that is behind schedule in the promotion of the free movement of labour is achieving comparability between Member States’ degrees and qualifications, which has become particularly topical following the 2004 enlargement and the accession of Bulgaria and Romania. I hope that the report will stimulate MEPs to rethink and understand the errors that have crept in, not least in the recently adopted services directive, and in rejecting the introduction of the European patent. Thank you."@en1
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