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"Mr President, Mr Commissioner, I applaud this document and welcome the fact that Mrs Montfort has had occasion to bring to our attention the important role played by small and medium-sized businesses in Europe. In fact, I wonder how much longer we will have to wait until the European Union is empowered to amend the regulations that govern small and medium-sized businesses throughout Europe and above all, when we will see a change in a climate which in 45 years of left-wing or predominantly left-wing government has dampened the entrepreneurial spirit of European companies. In many of the Member States, people who set up their own businesses, rather than being viewed as having created at least one job – their own – are sometimes held to be delinquents, profiteers, thieves or tax evaders.
New companies should be granted exemptions from taxes and charges for a period of at least five years, and we should provide for support to be given to young people setting up in business by an older person who can contribute their experience. Concerning the aspect with which I am most familiar – that of pensions and social welfare – entrepreneurs working on their own account should receive as much as people employed by others. In many of the 15 Member States, persons working on their own account have lower pensions, lower levels of mutual assistance and less industrial injury insurance. This is unjust and I therefore support this report."@en1
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