Statement by Antonio TAJANI (Italy), Commissioner-designate for Industry and Entrepreneurship, during his hearing at EP in Strasbourg.

Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

TAJANI, Antonio (EPP, IT)

Strasbourg

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Committee on Transport and Tourism

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Hearing of Antonio TAJANI (Italy), Commissioner-designate for Industry and Entrepreneurship: extracts

Exterior of the European PArliament, Strasbourg

Arrival of , greetings, cutaways (8 shots)

Antonio TAJANI, Commissioner-designate for Industry and Entrepreneurship, in French: 'The economic and financial crisis has shown us that industry has to remain at the heart of European economy

Antonio TAJANI, Commissioner designate for Industry and Entrepreneurship, in French: 'as the Lisbon Treaty makes it clear, our point of reference is the social market economy, and our goal is to create a social policy and the market is the instrument to achieve this social policy'

Antonio TAJANI, Commissioner designate for Industry and Entrepreneurship, in French: 'I am convince that we can marry industrial policy and the fight against climate change; there are two sides of the same coin, inter-linked policies with the same goal in view; marrying these two policies will be a marriage of convenience at first, but as you know marriage of convenience sometimes works better than the romantic marriages based on love... anyway I hope it will end being love after all'

Antonio TAJANI, Commissioner designate for Industry and Entrepreneurship, in French: 'Industry policy is essential to enhance growth and in terms of increasing the knowledge economy as well (...) We cannot be protectionist at this stage if we want to be competitive internationally'

Antonio TAJANI, Commissioner designate for Industry and Entrepreneurship, in Italian,"I am convinced that the Commissioner for Industry who is also responsible for Space, Inovation, must commit himself to make green economy not only a dream but an opportunity for economic growth and we must focus on the the industry sector

Antonio TAJANI, Commissioner designate for Industry and Entrepreneurship, in Italian, we must prevent that once a company shuts down its workers remain unemployed indefinitely; this is why I underscored the role of women as entrepreneurs, I think we have to implement actions in order to encourage young people to become entrepreneurs"

Antonio TAJANI, Commissioner designate for Industry and Entrepreneurship, in Italian, "A new indutrial template, which gives Europeans a better quality of life, it means to have quality and compete on a quality based product and not on quantity, and in 20 or 30 years the automotive car market may represent 2 or 3 billion cars worldwide and we will not be able to use petrol or diesel because it will cost too much!Well then our green cars , fruit of our European inovation will be competitive on the market.

Antonio TAJANI, Commissioner designate for Industry and Entrepreneurship, in Italian," Most important is to set up a strategy which promotes inovation in our economic system which will boost SMEs"

Antonio TAJANI, Commissioner designate for Industry and Entrepreneurship, in Italian,if you want one priority, the very first in the short term is access to credit for SMEs . If we don't let them survive now, then the risk is that the economic crisis will become a very serious social crisis"

Antonio TAJANI, Commissioner designate for Industry and Entrepreneurship, in Italian," I hope you won't accuse me of speaking a lot and say nothing. I expressed a position on a complex issue , that is body scanners, the transport Committte approved it, Parliament asked me for a different view, I made an evaluation based on comitology and we are now engaged in evaluating what we want to do with these body scanners, so I will continue to work as I did as Commissioner for transport and hope that I will get your support"