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"Madam President, may I start by thanking all of my colleagues for a very well informed debate on a topic which is actually not only topical, but crucial.
This is an issue of vital importance to citizens right across the European Union. They are looking today for leadership, direction, and a means by which they can go and create and develop their businesses and provide employment to grow Europe. Are we giving them what they are looking for? I am somewhat disappointed still to hear from the left of the House only one voice: ‘Let us cripple and burden entrepreneurs with more and more excessive regulation’. That is not an agenda that I am willing to sign up to. I hear all too often from businesses right across the European Union that the last thing they need is for that sort of approach to be adopted. Quite clearly, where it is appropriate, we have those measures and we are not dismantling those. My colleague, Vicky Ford, was quite right in the approach that she took.
In relation to the role of national parliaments, this House and these institutions have nothing to fear from the greater involvement of our parliamentary colleagues in national parliaments. Ms Wikström, Ms Panayotova and Mr Plenković quite rightly made the point that there is a need for a greater role to be established for them. At present the amount of time that we have given to national parliaments to respond is simply not long enough. It is down to us to increase the time period available to them. Under the yellow-card principle so far only two instances have arisen and, in one of those instances, I can tell you our Commission’s response has been far from adequate or satisfactory. Malcolm Harbour, my colleague, is quite right about impact assessments. The work that he has done in the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection has been pioneering and we will build upon that.
Finally, I notice that this side of the House, with the populists, was deserted. These are the very people who played absolutely no role in committee on any of these issues. They put forward no amendments and their input has been nil. Yet our issues of jobs, growth and prosperity are what they go and speak about outside this Chamber."@en1
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