Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-11-13-Speech-2-041"
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"Mr President, I welcome the Commission’s work programme and I look forward with keen interest to hearing how the EU is going to meet its extremely ambitious greenhouse gas emission and energy targets.
I was recently in Washington having meetings with the members of the Congress. They are fascinated to hear about our emissions trading system and are talking about cap and trade but they are rather incredulous about how ambitious our targets are.
I am also looking forward with keen interest to hearing how we are going to further develop the common research area. As President Barroso is not here, I will forbear from commenting on the European Institute of Technology and move on swiftly to mention the Small Business Act, the Commission communication for small businesses, because there are high expectations in the small business community of this proposal. But I am bound to say that in my Member State it may cause some confusion since a non-legislative action described as an act is possibly something of an oxymoron in UK terms.
Nevertheless, the small business sector is vitally important for our economy, for innovation and flexibility, for creating jobs, and it is to be supported. But we do have this habit at European level of being strong on rhetoric and weak on actions in support of small business."@en1
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