Name: 2012年達沃斯--大衛-卡梅倫 (Davos 2012 - David Cameron)
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It gives me great pleasure to introduce the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,

I think we are very privileged after having listened yesterday to Chancellor Merkel,

to hear now the Prime Minister talking about his vision for the future of the world,

and for the future of Europe and, I should add, the Euro.

So Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, please welcome.

And it's great to be back the World Economic Forum in Davos.

But we meet today at a perilous moment for economies right across Europe.

Growth has stalled, unemployment is rising,

the prospect of Europe getting left behind is all too apparent.

While China grows at 8%, India at 7% and Africa at 5.5%,

the European Commission forecasts that the EU will grow by just naught 0.6%

and even that is assuming that the problems in the Eurozone get better, not worse.

we had the official figures for the final quarter of the last calendar year,

Other the large economies of Europe are forecast to have a similar outcome or worse.

In just four years, government debt per EU citizen, has risen by ג‚¬ 4,500.

Foreign direct investment has fallen by around two thirds,

and in more than half of EU member-states, a fifth of all young people are now out of work.

So this is not a moment to try and pretend there is not a problem,

nor is it a moment to allow the fear of failure to hold us back.

This is a time to show the leadership that our people are quite rightly demanding.

Tinkering here and there and hoping we'll drift to a solution,

simply isn't going to cut it anymore. This is a time for boldness, not for caution.

but boldness also in what we do together as a continent.

We were faced, as we came into government,

with the biggest budget deficit in our piece- time history, more than 10% of our GDP.

We had the most leveraged banks, the most indebted households,

and the biggest housing boom. To be cautious would have been catastrophic.

We formed the first coalition government for 70 years.

We legislated for a fixed term five-year parliament,

which has helped to give people the confidence of stability and credibility.

We put forward an aggressive set of plans to get our economy back on an even keel.

Five and a half billion pounds saved inside the first financial year,

Welfare bills, cut. The cost of government, cut.

Public sector pay, frozen. The state paid pension age increased.

Let me give you one example, the reform of public sector pensions.

This is a difficult issue for any government.

We want public servants to have good pensions. We've insured that that is the case,

but at the same time, we've actually cut the long-term cost in half.

By taking bold decisions to get to grips with the debt,

Britain has shown that it is possible to earn credibility and get ahead of the markets.

Our borrowing costs have fallen to the lowest for a generation,

and we will be equally bold in meeting our key ambition, which is to support enterprise,

and to make Britain the best place in the world in which to start or to grow a business.

So, we are pursuing an unashamedly pro- business agenda, scraping needless red tape,

simplifying planning, reviewing all regulation,

creating the most competitive business tax regime in the developed world,

We're making bold investments in new infrastructure, including high-speed rail.

And while we may be fiscal conservatives, we are monetary radicals.

We are injecting cash into the banking system, and introducing credit-easing measures

to make it easier for small businesses to access finance.

So my message to you, in this special Olympic year for Britain,

is that we are a country that is absolutely committed to enterprise and to openness.

Come to Britain, invest in Britain.  Be part of this special year in a truly great country.

we're taking the bold steps necessary to get our economy back on track.

is that the need for bold action at the European level is equally great.

Europe's lack of competitiveness is its Achilles' heal.

the Lisbon strategy has failed to deliver the structural reforms that we need.

As measured by the World Economic Forum, more than half of EU member-states

are now less competitive than they were this time last year,

are now less competitive than a country that is pretty sclerotic, Iran.

For every Euro invested in venture capital in the EU,

five times as much is being invested in the US.

Our single market, one of our greatest strengths, remains incomplete,

and there are still a colossal 4,700 professions across the European Union

to which access is regulated by government. And that is not all.

In spite of the economic challenge, in spite of the unemployment challenge,

we're still doing things through the EU to make life even harder.

In the name of social protection, the EU has promoted unnecessary measures

that impose burdens on businesses and governments and can destroy jobs.

The Agency Workers Directive, the Pregnant Worker's Directive,

the Working Time Directive, the list goes on.

Then, of course, there is the proposal for a financial transactions tax.

Now, of course, it is right that the financial sector should pay their share,

and in the United Kingdom we're making sure that's the case with a bank levy,

and with the fact that we charge stamp duty on shares.

And these are options that other countries can adopt.

But if you look at the European Commission's own original analysis,

that showed that a financial transactions tax could cost the GDP of the European Union,

and could reduce it by ג‚¬ 200 Billion. It could cost almost 500,000 jobs,

and force as much as 90% of some markets away from the European Union.

Even to be considering this at a time when we're struggling to get our economies growing,

is quite simply madness. It shouldn't go on like this.

That is why Britain has been arguing for a pro-business agenda in Europe.

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