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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is fundamentally important to strengthen the pan-European commitment to support small and medium-sized enterprises, because, as has been said, they have a decisive weight and role in the Union’s social fabric and they are the real providers of economic recovery. In this context, I should like to recall that between 2002 and 2008, with the strong growth they exhibited in 27 countries, they created 9 400 000 new jobs, and already represented the driving force of employment. Today, as a result of the crisis, they have lost a third of the jobs that were created. It is therefore necessary to conceive specific instruments that will give small and medium-sized enterprises back their capacity to produce and create new jobs, because the whole of society will benefit from this. Access to credit is certainly one of the key issues, the one most valued by entrepreneurs. In the first part of 2010, 18% of small and medium-sized enterprises had bank loans refused. In the previous year, the relevant percentage was 12; these data come from a survey carried out by the European Central Bank. It is precisely access to credit, together with administrative simplification and access to markets, that will be among the key priorities set by the Small Business Act, which will be presented in Rome next week by Commissioner Tajani, and which we warmly welcome. I should like finally to mention my origins in a part of Italy – the North East – that has seen enormous development and considerable growth due precisely to an intelligent lending regime, which has been able to go hand in hand with the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises. Let us follow this example."@en1
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