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"Mr President, this debate is about strategic priorities. As coordinator for my Group on the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, I want to focus on one crucial priority: the internal market. I want to say in response to previous remarks – it is a pity that some speakers have already left – that the Commissioner's support for the Internal Market Services Directive is very welcome because it is a fundamental part of completing the internal market. Sixty percent of the European economy is taken up by services and we have a complete network of anti-competitive restrictions among the Member States.
Mr Barroso, do not withdraw the directive: make it better. I am afraid to say that some of my colleagues are still living in the past and calling it the 'Bolkestein Directive'. I hope, first of all, that they might move with the times and consider calling it the 'McCreevy Directive', but maybe with your endorsement it could become the 'Barroso Directive'. Who knows?
I want to make a second important point about internal market strategy. We have to make the rest of the internal market
work better for consumers and businesses. Aside from the Internal Market Services Directive, we do not want a lot more legislation during your Commission in the internal market area. What we want you to do is to put some serious enforcement and simplification behind the existing internal market directives. On the ground, businesses find many of the European directives much too complicated; in many cases there are inconsistencies between them. The objectives on the environment and social policy are, in many cases, not being delivered and yet we have the costs and inconsistencies that go with them. Consumers are concerned that they are not getting their full rights in terms of availability of products, common prices, or access to justice if they have problems in a cross-border world.
I hope that the theme of your strategy on the internal market will be that consumers and enterprises will get a better deal from the internal market and you will bring in provisions during your term of office to make sure that we really achieve that essential goal."@en1
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