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Mr President, Commissioner, several assessments suggest that uncertainty, particularly with regard to employment and social protection, has been a significant reason why many citizens have rejected the Constitutional Treaty in France and in the Netherlands.
After many years during which the words ‘industrial policy’ had disappeared, today they are making a reappearance, and we should all be pleased about this because it is by promoting a solid industrial sector that the citizens will be able to find better paid and more stable jobs. That is the way to contribute to increasing confidence in the European project.
The Commission’s Communication proposes an integrated approach, which includes the simplification and harmonisation of legislation in order to consolidate the internal market, and supports R+D and the need to promote its transfer to companies. But that harmonisation should also include a fiscal dimension.
The European industrial fabric is made up of diverse sectors, ranging from the aerospace industry to the textile industry, and they require specific responses. Sectoral analyses will help to facilitate greater cooperation between industry, the Commission and the Member States, which could create new opportunities.
Small and medium-sized businesses make up 90% of European industry and they require special attention in terms of their access to funding and transfer of research. Relocation is, on occasions, an inevitable reality and we must anticipate those changes.
To that end, we must create a dialogue that includes the administration and the social and economic actors and that takes account of the available research and innovation instruments. And, of course, an adjustment fund will be essential in order to accompany restructurings.
I would like to end by congratulating the Commission, because it has proposed the appropriate instruments for increasing European competitiveness and has done so within the framework of the Lisbon Strategy. But if we want the citizens to see the Union’s policies as an instrument for making progress and not as a threat, we must maintain the balance between the three pillars of that strategy, that is to say, the economic, the social and the environmental pillars."@en1
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