Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-09-04-Speech-2-026"

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dcterms:Date	"2007-09-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The Single Market Review (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070904.3.2-026"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-09-04-Speech-2-0272
lpv:speaker	lp:Luisa Fernanda Rudi Ubeda2
lpv:spokenAs	chair; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya) (2007-03-14--2008-02-19)3 unknown; Partido Popular (2004-07-20--2008-03-31)3 substitute; INTA (2007-01-31--2008-03-31)3 member; IMCO (2007-01-31--2008-03-31)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2008-03-31)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-11-14--2008-03-31)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2004-09-22--2008-02-19)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2005-02-21--2008-03-31)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, first please allow me to congratulate the rapporteur, Mr Toubon, on the content of his report and for having the skill to kindle a broad base of support for its adoption in this plenary. A reaffirmation at this point that much progress has been made in the construction of a Single Market in the European Union is to state the obvious, yet nevertheless it is also important to reiterate, obvious though it may be, that there is still a long way to go. I believe that experience shows us that open economies are the economies which grow the most and that increased competition always translates into benefits for consumers in the quality and price of goods and services competing on or appearing in the market. In a globalised market such as the one in today’s world it is impossible to believe that progress can be made using protectionist measures, and of course the European Union, as an economic stakeholder at world level, will only be able to have a strong economy if it continues to pursue measures to liberalise, construct and deepen the Single Market. On many occasions people have depicted increased competition and the liberalising measures in the European market as a relinquishment of the European social model or as a relinquishment of the protection afforded by social rights. I believe the exact opposite is true, namely that for the European social model to continue to move forward, for European citizens to continue to enjoy social protection measures and good social services, it is important for the European economy to grow and that growth will only, I stress, be possible if we deepen the European Single Market. I said that a great deal of progress has been made but there is still some way to go, and one of my colleagues has just given some specific examples of this. I believe that it is important to remove barriers so that small and medium-sized undertakings can work throughout the European Union. It is also important, as stated in the report, to investigate and develop the market in retail financial services, and especially intellectual property rights. I would like to ask the Commission to call on national governments and on the Council to ensure that Community provisions are duly transposed into national legislation."@en1

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