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"Mr President, the Members who initiated this debate raised the issue in their ninth question of whether it would be a good idea to review the cofinancing requirements for EU programmes aimed at SMEs. I think this is a question that we should be asking. However, we must make the context clear and if we weaken or water down the definition of SMEs by including mid-caps, there will be less money available to distribute to the SMEs in an area where the funding was already insufficient.
Secondly, if we reduce the cofinancing requirements, overall, fewer SMEs will have to share the available funding. This means that the only option available to us is to increase the money, if we are prepared to do so. Therefore, the conclusion that we must draw from this discussion is that we cannot simply stand by and watch while less money is spent on SMEs in Horizon 2020 and the Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs (COSME) than in …"@en1
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