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"Mr President, I think it is perhaps worth reminding the House that the core of the debate this morning is in fact a resolution from the Parliament’s Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, which has been proposed by me as Chairman and Pablo Arias, who will be speaking after me, which puts the digital single market squarely at the centre of job creation and growth. I was delighted that Fiona Hall particularly, and Antonio Correia de Campos, both picked up this point.
But could I perhaps ask you, Mr President, why – given that we have a parliamentary resolution on this topic – the authors of the resolution were not invited to open the debate? Because that is centred around this proposal.
Although we are delighted to have the Commissioner here to open the debate, I think it would have been good to frame it in the context of our resolution. I say that because the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection has been working consistently on issues around the policies needed to energise and complete the digital single market for the whole time I have been Chairman, but for the last six months Pablo Arias Echeverría has been chairing an all-committee group with other committees involved – Antonio Correia de Campos was involved in that as well – which have produced this resolution.
I particularly want to thank the other committees who submitted points for the resolution. We have had the Committee on Legal Affairs, the Committee on Transport and Tourism, the Committee on International Trade, the Committee on Culture and Education and the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs also submitting points.
But our overall message, Commissioner, as you have indicated, is that this is a highly complex and diverse issue. However, we think it does need a political framework to move it forward in the same way that we have encouraged, and you have picked up, the whole idea of a Single Market Act. When it comes to the October summit, I am pleased that you indicated that ‘you were going to put the final lines of action down’ for the October summit. I think the whole idea of our resolution was to encourage you to do that before the summit and to actually put all that together, but maybe that will happen.
That is the thrust of the message from us this morning and I invite colleagues to look at the detail of the resolution, which I am pleased has got complete support across this House. There are no amendments to this resolution, which indicates the engagement that everyone has had.
I would just like to conclude by again picking up Ms Hall’s theme about jobs. I was at the Digital Agenda Assembly last week, where I chaired a session on completing the digital single market. Again there were many examples of the kind that she mentioned with her coffee shop in Berwick-upon-Tweed of people transforming their businesses by going online into the digital single market.
This House has been absolutely behind a youth employment initiative and investing in it. We know there is a huge gap in digital skills. If we use that money to take young people with digital skills and place them in those sort of small businesses, and to energise and develop websites to transform their businesses, that would get them into employment and would make the European economy create even more jobs. I commend that to you as part of our work on the digital single market."@en1
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