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"Mr President, promoting small and medium-sized enterprises’ access to financing is one of the most important areas we should be considering at the moment. Better mobilisation of Structural Funds, more rapid implementation of ongoing projects, enhancement of EIB subsidies and the urgent discussion of the proposal on project bonds should definitely be among our immediate priorities in this area.
The question is whether all this will be enough. As things currently stand, I believe that the answer is ‘no’. In my opinion, the current classification of SMEs is inadequate to allow this sector to dynamically align itself with the EU market.
Commissioner, it would be worth considering whether the practice of SME financing should be changed: whether, instead of post-financing, we should take the risk of choosing pre-financing. I believe that in doing so, we could improve the chances of these companies being able to enter the market and could allow them to play a vital part in job creation. Thus, we could also realise your thesis so that it would be possible for 25 SMEs to …"@en1
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