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"To be perfectly honest, I am somewhat disappointed by the final outcome of the vote on this report, which seems to me to lack clarity. The subject, however, is important: social services of general interest (SSGIs) play a major role in our society and should not be overlooked. However, in my view, the European approach to this issue lacks both political ambition and legal clarity. On this latter point
drafted an opinion on behalf of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs calling on the European Commission to clarify the rules on state aid for SSGIs. I am pleased that the Commission has since chosen this path. On the subject of political ambition, I believe that the EU needs to define more precisely what it means by ‘social services of general interest’ and the policy it wishes to apply to them. I supported this own-initiative report because, for me, it seemed important to send a signal to the Commission, but I voted against the paragraphs and amendments I felt were confusing or inappropriate."@en1
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