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"Mr President, this is a good afternoon for the European Parliament and the European Union in terms of the topics we are discussing, which has a real impact on the real economy. We have discussed the Services Directive, the unitary patent and now new instruments to support SMEs. It has been said that SMEs are absolutely vital, and that if each SME created one extra job, then unemployment would cease in Europe. For many of them, creating one extra job would not be too difficult, particularly if they get credit, but the evidence is that they are not able to get credit.
Every weekend, I meet business people who cannot get credit, particularly in my country. I met a person last weekend who wanted EUR 4 000 for an SME as cashflow and could not get it. So the situation in my country is chronic. Despite the fact that the ECB has capitalised the banks, it is not being passed on. This certainly must be looked at. It is not good enough.
We have heard the mantra of banks being too big to fail. We should change that to a mantra of SMEs being too important to fail. If we give them the credit and the support, each of them could certainly create one extra job, and one extra job would get us out of the economic recession we are in. It is not too much to ask, and this evening, by discussing the new instruments to support SMEs, we can certainly go a long way in doing that."@en1
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