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"Mr President, I would go along with the general view I sense in this House regarding small and medium-sized enterprises and give my wholehearted support to what has just been said, in other words, that the businesses that have been hardest hit by the economic crisis are SMEs.
I am also in agreement with Mr Czarnecki, who said that these are most often small, family-run businesses from which families earn the bulk of their income. When a major corporation is hit – because they, too, suffered during the crisis – only their profits suffer. However, when a small business is hit, the family that relies on the business loses a vital source of income.
For these reasons, I would like to say that we should tread carefully when making changes, because both right and left-leaning measures can have a detrimental effect on SMEs, depending on where they are targeted.
I should like to say that simply doling out financial and bank guarantees will not be enough, and that we need greater legislative development – greater regulation of the banking sector, if you like – to secure funding for small businesses, and to finally stop posing the question in terms of some non-existent level playing field – for small businesses can never be equal to big businesses – but to help them to be truly competitive when a big corporation does come along."@en1
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