Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-02-14-Speech-1-061-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2011-02-14"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20110214.13.1-061-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-02-14-Speech-1-063-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Seán Kelly2
lpv:spokenAs	member; REGI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; CULT (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; EPP (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Fine Gael Party (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Canada (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, may I say, firstly, that I am grateful to the group for giving me the opportunity to speak in this debate and may I commend the rapporteur and Commissioner Barnier, in particular, for their excellent and important work. Since I came into the European Parliament, I have been hearing all the time about the need for more Europe. I certainly embrace that concept. The recent economic crisis has brought that idea home to all of us, especially in my own country. We have an election going on in Ireland at the moment, and it is very interesting that there is more talk about the EU than there is about local issues; this is obviously part of the result of the IMF-EU bail-out. Nevertheless, Ireland’s leader has spent two days in Europe, which is unprecedented – one with President Barroso and today with Chancellor Merkel. This all shows an engagement with Europe that we might not have had before. On this point, the directive has the potential to help us all across Europe to get out of the economic crisis and create prosperity. Unfortunately, many countries, including my own, have not transposed this directive into law. Hopefully, that will change with the new government. Particularly where SMEs are concerned, there is great potential. It has not been availed of because they are not aware of it, because of difficulties with language, etc. The first thing is certainly to transpose the directive into law. Secondly, the EU needs to impose barriers and penalties on countries that do not abide by the deadlines. It has been far too easy up to now. If we are to have progress, this has to be done. If each SME had one more employee, unemployment would cease in Europe. This is a great opportunity, as Mr Harbour and others have said. We cannot afford to wait."@en1
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