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"Madam President, we have been here before. Remember the Lisbon Agenda – the most competitive knowledge-based economy in the world leading to more and better jobs, a 10-year programme which started in 2000? Where is it? It failed, of course: simply because you keep on thinking you can solve a problem by central decree. Sorry, it does not work that way. Such programmes need a written plan, and then rules and regulations, and there we go: straight into the red tape jungle. If you could only understand that: cut the red tape and all the restrictive regulations, and let people get on with what they do best – making things and selling them.
Once again, I must remind you that big business can cope with red tape and can afford compliance officers and well-paid lawyers to bail them out if they make a mistake. SMEs, which employ half the workforce, do not have those resources, so when they get into trouble, they fold. Another one or two jobs go, and fewer youngsters are taken on to learn a trade. Take this morning’s farce in the vote on tyres for motor vehicles and trailers – not really a farce: it is another headache for the motor trade. For how many small garages will this be the last straw before they go under?
This whole agenda is another one-size-fits-all idea, or rather, one-size-that-fits-no one. The euro is one of those: now falling apart before your eyes, and all you can think of is to try more of the same. The first casualties of that disaster are, of course, the SMEs – and more jobs are lost."@en1
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