Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2015-10-08-Speech-4-072-000"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2015-10-08"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Implementation of Article 20 (2) Service Directive and Article 8 (3) Directive on Consumer Rights (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20151008.3.4-072-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2015-10-08-Speech-4-073-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Patrick O'flynn2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, it is all very well for the Commission to highlight the problem of geo-blocking and to pose as a consumer champion, but arguably the Commission itself deserves to be ranked as the Geo-blocker in Chief. Over-regulation by the Commission has made it much more difficult than it need be for SMEs to sell abroad. The recent VAT Mini One-Stop Shop (VAT MOSS) measure is a case in point: SMEs have to pay this tax on e-commerce sales in every single member country that they sell to, and the result has been a mass withdrawal of micro-businesses from export markets and a consequent narrowing of consumer choice. Far too often, the Commission, as well as the EU in general, becomes the problem rather than the solution. I do not doubt that it wishes to do good; I do ask that it opens its eyes to the harm it is doing in practice to the prosperity of what is fast becoming the world’s economically least dynamic continent."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Special Committee on Tax Rulings and Other Measures Similar in Nature or Effect (2015-09-16--2015-11-30)3 substitute; ECON (2015-06-03--2017-01-18)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Patrick O’Flynn,"1 "on behalf of the EFDD Group"1
lpv:videoURI	<go to Events_and_structure europarl>2

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