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"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is true that globalisation has affected small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and I would say that these effects have certainly been more negative than positive. This is largely due to the iniquitous commercial policy of the European Union, which, in exchange for illusory access to services and big tenders in third countries, has completely given up protecting the domestic economy and manufacturing sector. The figures cited in the oral question are clear: the benefits of international opportunities are, if they exist at all, exclusively enjoyed by big corporations, while the problems remain for the smallest businesses, which find themselves doubly in difficulty as they suffer from extremely strong and unfair competition at home and the inability to compete properly abroad. The European Union could help SMEs, but unfortunately not everyone seems to have the same perspective and sensitivity. In the document on the next budget that we shall have to approve, the Council has proposed cutting more than EUR 70 million from the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme, which also manages Enterprise Europe Network and other instruments designed to support the internationalisation of SMEs. I therefore hope that Parliament will oppose this narrow-minded decision of the Council and get its points across forcefully in order to maximise the help it can provide to the true economic heart and added value of Europe."@en1
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