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"Mr President, Commissioner, as far as the future of the single market is concerned, I hope that we will have a market that is less non-committal, more disciplined and one with fewer differences in terms of political culture. Many of you have confirmed this. If you have a debt, there are two things that are important. First, not spending more than you are earning and, second, looking for opportunities to earn more and generate income. The single market can help us with the latter.
We must ensure a functioning single market and, to do that, we need courage and audacity. We need fewer stifling rules and a better functioning market in all Member States, on equal terms and with greater uniformity. Experience teaches us that the transposition of directives creates variation within the single market, as a result of which it is a lot more difficult to get a single market to work, especially for the benefit of SMEs.
I have been arguing for years that we should base our single market legislation on regulations that would have the same effect in all Member States. I have not yet succeeded in that, but I ask you again to make sure that we base legislation for the improved functioning of our European economy on regulations which Member States will no longer be able to transpose in a protectionist fashion, which is indeed the very reason why a transnational economy is not functioning in the European Union.
The single market must again become an example for the global economy: a market where money is earned, where social security is guaranteed and a market that will address many aspects that ensure prosperity and political stability. We need to ensure, Mr President, that we achieve a single market where entrepreneurs will again feel at home instead of fleeing Europe due to stifling rules and a market where European citizens will again be proud to buy European products.
I see that I still have ten seconds, so I will briefly mention ACTA. ACTA is dead because we have not given enough information to our citizens. However, our own European products are being counterfeited to the tune of EUR 1 billion. We have to ensure that entrepreneurs, and European workers too, feel at home again in the single market."@en1
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