Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-06-09-Speech-4-044-000"
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"en.20110609.4.4-044-000"2
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"Madam President, dodgy scams, which are fraudulent in nature and prey on small businesses using a veil of legitimacy – often with Europe in their titles – must be made illegal. These scams do not just damage small businesses, which are threatened, harassed and bullied into paying fees for something they believed to be free; they damage the European Union when we do not take firm action to help.
It is the mantra of the European Commission, after all, to ‘think small first’, yet I have been raising this issue, as many colleagues have said, for many, many years, and yet no direct action has been taken: why not? We hear about surveys, information gatherings, and stakeholder meetings. We need action not words, and if we say that we will only wait to the end of this year, or give it another few years, then that is just too little too late: we must act now.
So, given the nature of these scams and their EU-wide and cross-border nature, will the Commission consider introducing a form of legal aid to assist SMEs in tackling these scams? These types of scams will continue until the Commission takes tough action."@en1
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