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dcterms:Date	"2011-02-14"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-02-14-Speech-1-136-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Olle Schmidt2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with Switzerland and Norway and to the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2010-11-22--2014-06-30)3,3 member; ECON (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3,3 substitute; TRAN (2010-11-22--2012-01-18)3,3 member; Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (2009-10-08--2011-07-31)3,3 substitute; IMCO (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3,3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3,3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2009-07-20--2014-06-30)3,3 unknown; Folkpartiet liberalerna (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, the Commission has every reason to be ambitious in view of the fact that you, and we too, are facing a very major challenge. We have 20 million small and medium-sized enterprises, which together constitute 99% of all European enterprises. We often say that Europe’s small businesses are the heart of the European economy. That is true, but it must not mean that small businesses are not allowed to grow big. We therefore need financing facilities, which my fellow Members have mentioned and which you touched on yourself, Mr Tajani. Among other things, we should utilise the financing facilities that are already available, and I would advocate the greater utilisation of the structural funds, for example. As Mr Bendtsen mentioned, the problems faced by European small and medium-sized enterprises have increased. Parliament has created a large number of rules within the financial market, most of which have been necessary. However, these rules have increased the loan costs for small businesses. We ought to be aware of this, and we ought to be careful when we propose different rules. We should, in any case, be aware of what it will ultimately cost. Mr Bendtsen also mentioned the Basel criteria, with which we are all familiar. Commissioner Tajani, you spoke about simplicity and flexibility and you believe that these attributes should be reflected in the EU’s programmes and financing facilities. You want us to do away with bureaucracy and complicated procedures. However, do you really believe that this is what small businesses and their employees think that the European Union is doing? Is it not rather the case that we are creating more bureaucracy and complicated procedures? In this regard, I believe that we need a complete change of attitude. As I said, we have 20 million small businesses in Europe, but we also have over 20 million unemployed in Europe. We know that social exclusion and poverty are increasing, and in order to deal with this we, and the Commission too, must be able to act in a resolute way to provide financing facilities for the small and medium-sized enterprises, because that is where the jobs will be created in Europe."@en1
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