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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the media agenda seems to be rediscovering the importance of having a long-term growth strategy, although this growth has been part of our political priorities for several months.
The economic recovery will obviously come about through better use of public resources to help companies that are creating jobs, primarily small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We should therefore recall that the 23 million SMEs in Europe are vital for economic development in our regions. Yet they have structural difficulties when it comes to obtaining financing, and the current crisis has only aggravated the situation. In February, we were already debating the use of regional funds here in Parliament to better combat youth unemployment and support SMEs. The Court of Auditors’ March report confirmed what we had already known for a long time: SMEs’ access to financial engineering instruments is far too complicated.
Commissioner, the Commission set aside a budget of EUR 27 billion for SMEs for this period. Do we know what has become of that budget? We all know the difficulties they are facing. The time has come, not so much to debate the definition of SMEs, but to determine how we can best take into account their differences and their needs when implementing our policies."@en1
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