Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-02-14-Speech-3-216"
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"Mr President, I welcome the Swedish Presidency’s arrival. I hope that they have taken positive steps with regard to the Statute for Members, as we are on the edge of our seats.
I would first of all like to congratulate Mr Gasòliba i Böhm on his sterling report. He has succeeded in listing our ambitions one by one in a readily understood manner. It is our wish to become the world’s most competitive and most dynamic knowledge-based economy, according to our leaders in Lisbon. Upon which they went home, and everything carried on as before.
We are still having to put up with stifling bureaucracy. Attempts to liberalise and introduce simpler rules for small and medium-sized businesses never come to anything on account of short-sighted national interests. I sometimes dream about this, but I always wake up screaming. In order to streamline legislation, we should not only scrutinise our activities here, but also examine how a directive emerges from the national transposition processes. A simple and clear-cut customs act suddenly appears to be backed by legislation which fills three thick volumes.
Moreover, I am of the opinion that the
should be given the kiss of life. It should not amount to pure guesswork but to an actual business test. A test of how a certain piece of legislation will be received in industry. The problem Europe has – and I trust I can be so outspoken after eleven years in this Parliament – is that I am always duly impressed with the rhetoric, but never by the action that follows.
I would like to quote the liberalisation of the postal services as a case in point. Not only Parliament, but also the Council, which had explicitly welcomed the liberalisation in Lisbon with open arms, have taken a step back rather than forward. If we compare this situation in Europe with that in the United States, we are still in complete deadlock in certain areas. It is not yet the case – not by a long chalk – that Europe can lead the world economy now that US leadership has temporarily lapsed.
Europe’s core countries, France, Germany and Italy, have enjoyed the benefits of the cheap euro to the full, and have not made any structural changes to their labour markets and their economies."@en1
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