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"Mr President, it gives me very great pleasure to present this question, and I am delighted that my group is leading on this. We were the first group to table this question. I think it shows how much importance we attach to having a suite of growth policies in place, but particularly those tools really needed to create jobs in the real economy without creating huge drains on investment for already overstretched public treasuries.
I will not go through all the elements of this report in my two minutes, but I just want to highlight two. First of all, I want to talk about opportunities in the European single market. I am delighted that my colleague Mr Creutzmann’s question addresses the same theme. This shows that there are many people here thinking alike.
This is the biggest unexploited opportunity to get jobs really moving and to get those essential small businesses off the ground. Our history shows that it is small enterprises that have consistently created more jobs than in any other sector over the last ten years. In the services area, where we have created new opportunities for businesses to get information to start businesses easily in other countries, we must exploit that. But most governments are not promoting these opportunities. They are not using the tools that we have already put in place.
Secondly, on the digital single market, I am inundated with reports. Every week, I get a fresh report showing the importance of investment in digital infrastructure and its exploitation by business in creating jobs. I want to thank Viviane Reding for the part that she played in this when she was Commissioner for communications and telecommunications. We need to take advantage of this. We need to accentuate that investment. We need to get more businesses online. That is the one growth area in our economy. The latest reports show that the European Union is the largest region in the world for e-commerce. Now that is a huge prize to be exploited.
We have opportunities and we have tools. Why are we not engaging our governments, with the support of the Commission and others, in using these tools and coming out and creating those new jobs and opportunities?"@en1
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