Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-03-09-Speech-3-056"
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"Mr President, one of my first speeches when I became a Member of this Parliament five years ago was on the first Lisbon Strategy in April 2000. I was dismayed that the completion of the internal market was ranked well down the priorities in that original paper and there was only one page devoted to it in a voluminous document.
I thank you, President Barroso, and your team, for elevating the internal market to the top of the agenda where it ought to be. If we do not complete the internal market, we will never have the basis for creating the jobs, growth, social and environmental policies we all want. It is absolutely clear that the next phase of the internal market has to be in services; we all know that.
Last week I said publicly to you, President Barroso, that I thought you were wobbling over this proposal. You were not here last night to hear Mr McCreevy make his barnstorming speech. It showed how important this directive is and I thank him very much for that. I can assure you that this side of the House will work with you to get the measure through, because it is the most important measure for the internal market since the 1992 programme and it is crucial for jobs and employment.
Small- and medium-sized companies are already benefiting from it. I was delighted to hear that Commissioner Verheugen is going to bring forward a comprehensive programme for modernising and enhancing the conditions for small businesses. That was a weakness in the proposal. I am delighted it is going to be remedied, because if every small- and medium-sized company across Europe creates one more job over the next five years, we will have met that job creation goal. That will
only be achieved when we have business-friendly policies and an environment in which people want to go out and start businesses, whether in services or in manufacturing and technical innovation. That is the key to delivery of this Lisbon Agenda. We stand ready, President Barroso, to work with you to achieve those goals."@en1
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"(Applause from the PPE-DE Group.)"1
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