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"Mr President, on the subject of aid, I do not believe that the problem can be solved with State aid. Instead I think we should be encouraging a few areas of industrial policy: innovation and, in the car industry, research linked for example to hybrid, electric or hydrogen-fuelled vehicles. These are positive, legitimate choices. Meanwhile, we need to avoid using unlawful State aid because it could distort the internal market and not really do anything to help competitiveness, though I do believe that there could be fiscal measures to support consumers – this would be lawful.
I do think, however, that the greater effort being made not only through the current framework programme, the forthcoming Financial Perspective and Horizon 2020, but also through all the structural funds, also within the framework of the forthcoming Financial Perspective, should act as a much greater incentive to research and innovation. We might also be able to provide more help if we achieve fiscal harmonisation.
We should definitely invest in infrastructure and we should invest in research and innovation, but without indiscriminate showers of State aid that, in the past, have only provided a temporary solution and have often created tensions between different Member States. What does work is investing in industrial policy, with a particular focus on research and innovation and helping consumers to buy the most up-to-date, most environmentally friendly products that have the greatest impact on climate change."@en1
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