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"Mr Harbour, Ms Kroes and Mr Dalli may, of course, have their own opinion to share on this topic as, I repeat, the originality and the exemplary nature of what we are doing with the Single Market Act is also due to the fact that we have worked together cooperatively, on the basis of the report by Louis Grech, and of the work of your committee and other committees such as the Committee on Legal Affairs, for example. Furthermore, 13 or 14 of us Commissioners have worked together for several months. That is not enough to succeed. We are presenting legislative proposals which are all aimed at proactively encouraging growth.
Honourable Members, we are well aware, and this is an understatement, that there is no public money left to hand out for creating growth, or at least not much. We must therefore adopt a different approach, because it is our duty to create growth. Citizens expect that. They do not only expect regulation, austerity, supervision and governance. This is the objective of the Single Market Act. I was very pleased to see, as Mr Harbour just said, that in the conclusions of Sunday’s European Council – which, I imagine, will be reinforced by the conclusions of the next European Council tomorrow – the issue of the Single Market Act was also included, perhaps for the first time, as a priority in the field of economic policy. It is our duty to pave the way for innovation (through the patent), investment (through funding for SMEs and risk capital), exports and mobility within this large market of 500 million consumers and 22 million businesses.
The priority now, Mr Harbour, is for governments to take ownership of this Single Market Act. That is why it is encouraging to see that, at the highest level, Heads of State or Government are taking account of this act and even stating that they wish to proceed quickly with it, and that a fast-track procedure must be developed with Parliament, between colegislators.
I am now going to pursue the work that I have been patiently accomplishing at local level, Mr Harbour. One cannot be office-bound in Brussels and be a good Commissioner. I shall therefore continue what I have started. I have almost completed a tour of all the capitals to meet civil servants, national parliaments and economic operators, and I am now going to visit each Member State for a second time. I will be going out in the field, as we did together in Kraków for this internal market governance, which must be improved on the basis of our proposals and those of Parliament."@en1
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