19. Access to finance for SMEs and increasing the diversity of SME funding in a Capital Markets Union - How best to harness the job creation potential of SMEs? (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report on access to finance for SMEs and increasing the diversity of SME funding in a Capital Markets Union [2016/2032(INI)] - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Rapporteur: Othmar Karas (A8-0222/2016)

Report on how best to harness the job creation potential of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) [2015/2320(INI)] - Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. Rapporteur: Zdzisław Krasnodębski (A8-0248/2016)

Othmar Karas and Zdzisław Krasnodębski introduced the reports.

The following spoke: Valdis Dombrovskis (Vice-President of the Commission).

The following spoke: Zbigniew Kuźmiuk (rapporteur for the opinion of the BUDG Committee), Luigi Morgano (rapporteur for the opinion of the CULT Committee), Liadh Ní Riada (rapporteur for the opinion of the BUDG Committee), Deirdre Clune, on behalf of the PPE Group, Siôn Simon, on behalf of the S&D Group, Stanisław Ożóg, on behalf of the ECR Group, Martina Dlabajová, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Maria Lidia Senra Rodríguez, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, David Coburn, on behalf of the EFDD Group, Bernard Monot, on behalf of the ENF Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by David Coburn, David Casa, Emilian Pavel, Czesław Hoc, Cora van Nieuwenhuizen, Paloma López Bermejo, Marco Zanni, Nicolas Bay, Markus Pieper, Jonás Fernández, who also replied to a blue-card question by David Coburn, Neoklis Sylikiotis, Beatrix von Storch, Pablo Zalba Bidegain, Elena Gentile, Theodor Dumitru Stolojan, Flavio Zanonato, Romana Tomc, Eva Paunova and Bendt Bendtsen.

The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Notis Marias and Miguel Viegas.

The following spoke: Valdis Dombrovskis, Othmar Karas and Zdzisław Krasnodębski.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 15.9.2016, item 11.11 and minutes of 15.9.2016, item 11.12.