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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in the same way that our rapporteur is a sensible man, this proposal for a resolution is a sensible balance between various opinions and fulfils a core requirement of the European Union, which has been stuck in a rut of low and uncompetitive growth for far too long.
The Prodi Commission always looked upon State aid as the enemy of competition and of the single market. Sadly, that was a one-sided and distorted outlook, which often meant that less of that rightful public support went to strategic economic sectors, such as research and innovation, or to the vital cohesion policy. In contrast, the Barroso Commission seems to take a different view, and the resolution approved by the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs provides some guidelines from which the Commission ought not to deviate.
None of us opposes competition. Nevertheless, this basic value in the market economy has often been subject to the ideologies of bureaucrats and economists lacking in any political responsibility, to the extent that, in the real economy, they have been responsible for delaying the recovery of competitiveness in entire regions of the European Union.
As Mr Pittella has already stated, we must start a new chapter today by reconciling competition with cohesion policies. To this end, advantageous tax conditions, for instance, are useful because they can contribute positively to the cohesion policies and because, in the absence of any tax harmonisation among the Member States, they constitute a vital instrument in the hands of national governments where tackling regional underdevelopment is concerned.
I therefore want to make just one recommendation to Mrs Kroes: that she drafts a new proposal for a directive as quickly as possible. This proposal should – if not exclusively, then mainly – take account of Parliament’s guidelines, given that the crisis the Union is grappling with is completely subsumed by the Council’s crisis and by its inability, for example, to deal with the unequal way in which the Member States’ markets are deregulated, a situation that is far more damaging to competition than any misguided State aid is."@en1
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