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"Responsibility for the management of companies belongs to those who own them – the shareholders. Our duty is to create a legislative framework in which every shareholder can decide on his property. It is not for us to prescribe to companies how many women have to sit on their boards. Our task is to ensure that every citizen, man or woman, enjoys the same civil, property and labour rights. If we start to assume responsibility for people’s decisions, we will deprive them of their freedom and initiative. This will be the end of business and the functioning economy. The EU cannot guarantee people prosperity, because prosperity is born out of risk. I have lived in a country that, in an effort to eliminate market speculation and so-called excessive profits, first abolished the stock exchange, and then business itself. That country went bankrupt."@en1
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