There is one manufacturer whose prospects were deemed poor at the time.

Euro may have led to cost reductions for euro area firms and to lower prices for traded goods Euro has made firms more competitive

Competitive business as the condition for job creation

We can only end social exclusion if we have competitive businesses.

Illegal state aid, by contrast, destroys competitive companies and creates unemployment.

We are now living in a global market where companies have to be competitive.

We need to make European businesses more competitive more support mechanisms must be put in place to assist small and medium sized enterprises.

It is essential to consolidate those features which will allow European textile companies to compete on the open market.

If we fail with the economy if we do not have competitive companies the whole of sustainable development is in danger.

You couldn't get a lira more. The prices were fixed.

Developing competitive regions

That can create more competition, cut costs, make European companies more competitive and, at the same time, save defence budgets.

The guiding principle of corporate social responsibility for companies is to be competitive and profitable by living up to their social responsibilities.

They will then become competitive.

This brings us back to the old problem of the inescapable expenditure and the need for maximum strengthening of the revenue of the structural funds, and I believe that aim is worthy of our best efforts.

Then it suddenly transpired that the German companies were more competitive, although wages there are higher than in Belgium.

They are ready and willing to share responsibility for significant strategies that make their firms more competitive.

And the idea varies simply is that there are five competitive forces that prohibit or inhibit firms and industries from being unprofitable.

For us Liberals, a sound economy, with competitive businesses, is the only basis on which it is possible to create jobs and generate resources for social policy.

But we must not forget that economic considerations also play a part.

We need to improve the freight network, and the companies themselves have to be competitive as regards overcoming the difficulties of rail transport.

Competition is the regulatory mechanism of the market system.

Many of the German companies, for instance, believe that they are really producing a high quality product at a good price, so they are very competitive.

The Martin report, however, tries to deal with the problem, and if we are serious about convergence, if we mean the things we have said over all these years, then we ought to support it and the programme of action that it recommends. mends.

If the European Union wants to be the world's most competitive region, that means that its enterprises must be the most competitive enterprises in the world.

For the second tendering procedure , the construction works were divided into packages and lots in the hope that medium sized companies would also submit competitive tenders and that specialised companies would be found for each trade .

The Operational Programme is also supporting job creation through entrepreneurship and new businesses that will build up the region s competitive advantages.

State television networks take up space which could be used for the creation of competing firms, possibly even European firms, and the charges, licence fees and funding associated with them siphon off resources which could be redistributed in the market and used to create a plurality of competing companies.

Public monopolies must be replaced by competitive structures.

If they could they would become more com petitive.

It does not respond to the demands of the European farmers who demonstrated yesterday, in every Community country, against the Mac Sharry proposals.

Lastly, we insist on recommending to the governments of the Member States that they should encourage their companies and research centres to participate in the Eureka European programme as a means of contributing to the developing and use of the new technologies in Europe.

We cannot allow a situation where, at the end of this crisis, some internationally competitive firms drop out while other uncompetitive firms remain.

One of the most important measures for reducing the competitive disadvantages faced by the railways is to separate those responsible for the infrastructure from the transport firms.

If we want there to be more jobs, we must have the courage to liberalise the labour market.

There are too many regions presently at a disadvantage from an uncompetitive infrastructure and from the lack of the business support services which are needed if the required level of new and modern business investment is to be achieved.

CATASTA also those who once worked and would now like to come back to work, women in particular.

This is also necessary if we want to keep competitive farms.

Ultimately, however, our fleets must remain competitive in the long term.

But I ask the President of the Commission not to weigh them down by directives which in themselves are logical but, when added up, make small businesses uncompetitive.

My problem with that message is that it is all quite true in the long term according to the various reports, but that he fails to give any answer at all to the problems of the people who are at this moment jobless, nor is any answer given in a Commission report on employment in 1992 as regards the long term unemployed, who even at times of economic growth simply remain without employment.

TOMLINSON (S). Madam President, one of the problems of this House is how to fit important matters such as Parliament's working policy on buildings into the middle of plenary sessions, and if I am out of breath it is because I have been running from IPE 600 ro attend a debate for which we have precious little time.

To achieve the objectives of the Lisbon Summit on entrepreneurship and transition to an information society for all, we need dynamic and competitive businesses.

I would also like to remind you about the vital concept of location advantages.

British industry has always been one of the most competitive and open.