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"We have voted against this resolution, which declares as its very first point: ‘whereas the European Single Market has brought tremendous benefits to 500 million Europeans, whilst opening up new opportunities for expansion for more than 21 million European businesses, and has become the real engine for growth within the European economy’. Really, such a declaration cannot be allowed to pass when we bear in mind that free-market competition has made life easy for the sections of society that wield economic and financial power, but has aggravated unemployment, increased the rate of bankruptcy among micro-enterprises and SMEs and done nothing to improve the day-to-day lives of the general population, as the present crisis is making plain.
Thus, even though the Single Market Forum may be converted into a regular event to enable businesses and citizens, as well as local and regional authorities, to participate directly in and influence the further development of the single market, the truth remains that the current state of affairs is quite different from that proclaimed in this report. Similarly, we disagree with the pressure being exerted here to further entrench the single market."@en1
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