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The report by Philippe Herzog proposes some minor adjustments to the scoreboard for state aid and gives some pious wishes. Like him, we deplore the freezing of Research and Development aid, and like him, we are in favour of exceptional cases being considered. However, the report must be severely criticised in terms of its content. It deals with the absence of any evaluation procedure as just one point among many others. It is however, the key issue: rather than being called to vote on a table of figures, according to democracy the European Parliament should have the opportunity to give an opinion based on genuine assessments. The reason why this aspect is only mentioned in passing is that the rapporteur deprived it of all importance in advance by swearing allegiance to the neo-liberal dogma. The report closes the discussion before it opens by stating that it supports 'the objectives of reducing aid granted by states or from state funds, in any form whatsoever, which distorts or threatens to distort competition'. The dominant theme of this report is therefore detailed arrangements with a logic of pure competition, and this is also why we voted against it."@en1
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