1 Amendments of Martina DLABAJOVÁ related to 2017/2043(BUD)
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Points out that micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises are a major source of employment in the Union andthe backbone of Europe's economy, representing 99% of all businesses in the EU; notes that one of the main problems in setting up and maintaining such enterprises and keeping them going is that of obtaining finance; underlines that the 2018 budget should support measures promoting entrepreneurship in those enterprises, including social entrepreneurship and, innovative social enterprises and self-employment; stresses, in this respect, that the budget 2018 should in particular facilitate access to micro- credits available through the microfinance and social entrepreneurship axis of the Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) programme;