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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I am, of course, delighted at the very broad consensus uniting us around Mrs Vlasto's report this evening, and I am pleased to have heard Chancellor Schüssel and then Mr Barroso telling us this morning how interested they were in SMEs and assuring us that this subject would be brought up during the spring Council. I would like, for my part, to draw your attention to two points.
We have just been talking about SMEs in abstract terms, as an administrative body, needing simplification, more money, a better environmental context, and so on. A small business is, in essence, its leader – I know there are some in this Chamber who have just spoken – and it is now nearly 31 years since I myself set up my first business. We therefore need to take these leaders into account if we are going to give them real answers, so that their small businesses can run properly.
If you talked to all the heads of SMEs in Europe, they would tell you one thing – that there are not enough hours in the day – and, at this time of night, many of them are still hard at work. We must provide real answers, Commissioner. We must simplify, but in particular we must apply the principle of subsidiarity so that authorities, states and professional organisations can provide real support at local level. It is not up to the European Union to do all of that itself, but it must do it.
My second point relates to our fellow citizens. As has already been said, we must increase awareness right from school age. I would therefore like to make a proposal. Just as there are music and football competitions at European level, why not institute a European 'open day' for small enterprises? Why not organise a European Good Practice Day? Those are just a few ideas on how we can communicate and show our fellow citizens how important our SMEs are."@en1
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