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"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it was an own-initiative report by the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe which pointed out that the absorption capacity of certain Member States was not very high. As rapporteur on that report, I pointed to the causes of that situation.
It is now necessary that the Commission take appropriate action here. We will also support the Commission in finally taking action in problem countries – in Greece, Romania, Bulgaria and in southern Italy. A reallocation of resources towards small and medium-sized enterprises, dual vocational training and tackling youth unemployment is absolutely the right course to take. That has to be our starting point. However, the vital thing is that capacities are built up, if we are to solve these problems. The impression the citizens of Europe have is that – as in Greece – all-out austerity is not working and that the government simply agrees measures which then remain unimplemented.
However, it is crucial that, to use a car analogy, we do not put our foot down on the accelerator only to find that nothing happens. Now we need to engage a gear, so that the engine can provide thrust to the wheels! After all, we need to take action to develop a real economy: that is, to improve competitiveness, so that the problem is tackled at the root."@en1
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