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"It is understandable why Parliament and the Commission should look into the problems encountered by small enterprises in Europe, particularly the craft trades. The documents with which we are here concerned take us, however, into a virtual world or ideological construction glorifying the market. In this way, the Green Paper on Entrepreneurship and this report, which comments upon it, presuppose that ‘entrepreneurs are the driving force of the social market economy’. Wage earners, obviously viewed as the force of inertia, will be most appreciative. Moreover, the Green Paper conceals nothing of the Commission’s ill opinion of the ‘bottlenecks affecting the flexibility of [the] labour market’. The Langen report also asks for initiatives to be taken to ‘put an end to old-fashioned attitudes which insist on attributing guilt to entrepreneurial activity and demonising business profit’. Yet, in ‘real life’, it is in fact large companies’ attempts to maximise their profits that crush small subcontractors. Such companies require the lowest prices and the highest rates of work from them, with repercussions for salaries and the conditions of work of wage earners now without secure employment. The documents proposed have nothing to say about this, but repeat the tired refrain about the need to reduce social charges. We have therefore voted against this biased report of limited scope."@en1
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