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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, do you know Mr Hanselmann? If not, you should get to know him. Around 20 years ago, Mr Hanselmann founded a company with three colleagues from the University of Paderborn. Now it has 1 000 employees. He received a loan from the state subsidy system in North Rhine-Westphalia to set up his company. This shows that state subsidies for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and subsidised loans are helpful.
We need an initiative in Europe to promote the start-up of SMEs. The aid available must be made simpler. It must have lower thresholds and involve less red tape. One approach could be innovation vouchers. In addition, we must reallocate the unused money from the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund so that SMEs in Greece, for example, can obtain loans. However, to be able to do this, we also need different banking systems. One possibility would be cooperative banks and savings banks which the outlying countries in particular do not have. We need both things: a solution for the outlying countries and a policy for highly innovative companies in wealthier regions which will reinforce their strengths. That is what is currently required."@en1
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