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Mr President, I am shadow rapporteur for the report on the scoreboard for the internal market and I will therefore concentrate on that, and in that respect, this is a day of rejoicing. It is a day on which we can all agree that these scoreboards are working extremely well. They are a great success at a fundamental level, and therefore I presume we can only agree that more should be done to promote them. I am also pleased to note that it looks like the Social Democrats have found out that it is not a good idea to vote against it in any event. With regard to the famous test that has been proposed, we in the group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe naturally support this proposal; moreover, we find it a little difficult to comprehend what the slightly defensive argument against this proposal is really about. We can come back to that, however. I will merely note as a general observation that it is excellent that there is broad agreement on the proposals and the report otherwise.
I will concentrate on what I think are a couple of the good things that have been included in the report. Firstly, we have succeeded in focusing on the need for greater powers in the Member States’ administrations, not only nationally, but also regionally and locally. I feel that one of the problems with the scoreboards is that some powers are still lacking as regards how we get things to work. It is good, therefore, that this has been included in the report.
Another good thing is the focus on enforcement. The SOLVIT centres have received a lot of praise, and I fully support this. As the last speaker mentioned, we could in fact instigate a SOLVIT Day here in Parliament. I feel that SOLVIT’s greatest problem at present is that it is not sufficiently known. There really is a great need to bring SOLVIT into focus much more than is happening at present – which brings me to my last point, which concerns emphasising that this is a communication issue, as is also made clear in the report. We really must ensure that we bang the drum in respect of the press and the rest of the public and ensure that much more focus is put on areas such as SOLVIT and the scoreboards.
In general, I would like to say on behalf of my group that I am really pleased to be able to lend this report our wholehearted support, and naturally I hope that the Commission – and I gather …"@en1
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