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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-02-21"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Competition policy (2003)2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050221.16.1-159"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-02-21-Speech-1-1602
lpv:speaker	lp:Gunnar Hökmark2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-08-31--2007-02-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ITRE (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Israel (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 unknown; Moderata Samlingspartiet (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007-2013 (2004-10-14--2005-06-08)3 member; ECON (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, first of all, might I be permitted to express my appreciation of Mr Evans’s reports and its conclusions? I also wish to express my appreciation of Mrs Kroes’s contribution and emphasise that I am among those who look forward with high hopes to possible further contributions of hers. I believe we have to be aware of the fact that what, right now, is the driving force in the European Union and in the work on developing and modernising our society is competition. We have the pressure of external competition resulting from globalisation and that of internal competition, reinforced by enlargement and the internal market. Such competition releases considerable dynamism and energy into European society, and not only where development, growth and new jobs are concerned. I also believe that it is in practice the most powerful tool for European integration when it comes to the spread of ideas, goods and services across borders. That is what is happening right now, and I believe there is a danger of our underestimating it. I should therefore like to ask the Commissioner to try also to include this dimension of the effects of competition in future competition reports. It is not only a matter of economics, but also of European cooperation in its most practical sense. I believe we have the task of extending the basic conditions of competition to new areas. What is at issue here is the knowledge-based society, involving research, education and health care. As Mr Evans points out in his report, it is also a question of energy and telecommunications markets. I should also like to draw the Commissioner’s attention to that part of the report that deals with the importance of also creating sound conditions for European manufacturers to compete globally and with the importance of the need, when making competition assessments, to consider the whole of the internal market and not only national and local sub-markets. Companies of the future will require a large domestic market. That is what the internal market needs to be for, and it is with this in mind that competition should be developed."@en1

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