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"Mr President, during this important debate, many of the honourable Members have touched on the single market, which finds itself – as I was saying yesterday – in a paradoxical situation. It is the first victim of the crisis, of unemployment, of the anxiety, despair and anger of many European citizens; yet, at the same time, it represents the main opportunity or asset in exiting the crisis.
I would like to make three brief observations on what we are doing to promote growth, and state, as many others have done, that we have felt for some time now that a growth initiative should be added to the fiscal and budgetary pact to ensure its success. Honourable Members, we have said this for some time and we are also taking action.
I say this to Mr Verhofstadt, beyond these walls. For many months, not weeks, the Commission has worked on and proposed what could – if the Heads of State or Government so desire – make up the substance of this growth initiative: ‘project bonds’, previously mentioned by Olli Rehn; the tax on financial transactions; as regards the single market, with your support and following on from the Monti report and the report by Louis Grech that you have adopted, 40 proposals are before Parliament and the Council of Ministers, all of which have a positive impact on the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises or on consumers; the European patent; which is actively supported by the Danish Presidency;
commerce; simplification of procurement contracts; venture capital; mobility; social entrepreneurship; and professional qualifications.
Next week, we will put forward a proposal on
signatures, which should be one of the key areas in a very concrete issue, and which will perhaps enable us to make savings of EUR 100 billion each year. The issue in question is the digitisation of procurement contracts throughout Europe, then collective rights management. In a few weeks’ time, we will then put forward the second phase of the Single Market Act 2013, including 12 new proposals.
Honourable Members, we must act now; vote on these bills with the Council and create the conditions, the ecosystem needed by businesses – particularly the smallest and medium-sized ones – and consumers for their activities, and for the investments mentioned by Mr Swoboda earlier, or the ‘green growth’ mentioned by Ms Harms.
In my view, honourable Members, we should go further and find once more the boldness that the founders of the European Coal and Steel Community showed at the very beginning of the European project. Imagine, for example, a European savings account that could take private savings and channel them to small and medium-sized enterprises, or laying the foundations of an industrial policy to protect those strategic technologies that we need to preserve our independence.
My second point is this: Corien Wortmann-Kool spoke of the implementation process, and I would like to prove her right. We will put forward radical reforms of how the single market is governed and rigorously check that our laws are implemented by the EU countries in the partnership. However, there will be a zero tolerance policy at the end of the partnership, and we will propose to incorporate this governance of the single market into the European Semester. Priority will be given to the effective implementation of the Services Directive, to enable it to fulfil its full potential, and to the digital single market.
My final point, honourable Members, is this: what was to blame for growth stopping in Europe and throughout the Western world and the United States four years ago? It was the financial crisis – let us not forget this and neither the Commission nor Parliament will. It was the banks – some of which behaved irresponsibly, and it is clear that some bankers have indeed forgotten and have learned nothing – a lack of supervision, a lack of regulation and a gross distortion of free enterprise.
Honourable Members, for governance, growth and the social market economy to succeed, I recommend that we have strong, sound foundations for the financial markets, which should serve the real economy and not themselves. With your support, and with the greatest determination, it is here, too, that the Commission fulfils its agenda."@en1
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