Andrzej Grzyb (PPE). – (PL) Mr President, I, too, would like to add my voice to the propitious expressions of thanks to Mr Maystadt and the European Investment Bank, and also to Mr Deutsch, who drafted the report.

Two objectives, in fact, have been discernible during the debate: firstly, development, and secondly, stabilisation, or the other way round – the order is not important. In the European Union and its Member States we are thinking, principally, of development in the area of cohesion. Here, I want to emphasise in particular the role which can be played by financing the small and medium-sized enterprise sector. We have already said, in the Lisbon Agenda, that without the small and medium-sized enterprise sector and without regional cooperation it will not be possible to develop cohesion.

We have countries outside the Union, which are neighbours of the European Union, the Eastern Partnership countries, where without the help of the European Investment Bank – Mr Kowal also spoke about this, and so did Mrs Andrikienė – it will not be possible...

(The President cut off the speaker)