Speech by MEP Hökmark at SME Union Working Breakfast: A Digital Single Market
”We must lay the ground allowing for the development of a real digital single market, to ensure a rapid and dynamic development of services, products and marketing on the… Läs mer »Speech by MEP Hökmark at SME Union Working Breakfast: A Digital Single Market

”I very much welcome this meeting and I hope that the next meeting we will have very soon and in a different context, once Croatia becomes an EU Member State”, said Gunnar Hökmark MEP, Vice-Chairman of the EPP Group and the Chairman of the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee, after meeting with Gordan Jandroković, the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Croatia.
De kommande tio åren kommer Europa att präglas av åtstramningar och besparingar. Men i spåren av den finansiella krisen har ivern att minska systemrisker och de svagheter som präglade de finansiella marknaderna lett till en vilja att reglera inte bara mot systemrisker utan även mot risktagande som sådant. EU-direktivet om alternativa investeringsfonder, felaktigt kallat hedgefondsdirektivet, är ett exempel på hur långt ivern att reglera har gått. I EU-kommissionens förslag till direktiv bakades hedgefonder, råvarufonder och riskkapital samman i ett enda regelverk oberoende av var det fanns systemrisker.
”We have raised concerns about the rule of law, the fairness and transparency in the recent regional elections as well as the freedom of press in the Ukraine”, said Gunnar Hökmark MEP, Vice-Chairman of the EPP Group, who led a delegation of EPP Group MEPs to the Ukraine. The delegation met opposition leaders, Yulia Timoshenko and others, as well as government representatives such as Deputy Prime Minister, Sergiej Tihipko, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Konstantyn Gryschenko, and the Speaker of the Parliament, Volodymyr Lytvyn.