These licenses will make it easier for new European-based online services to take off,

I want to foster a climate where EU-wide licenses are more readily available for legitimate online music service providers.

I favor initiating some action, but I await final conclusions from our legal services,

With the broad consensus reached on key aspects of this proposal the European Parliament has provided us with a solid basis for going forward.

The concerns expressed in the draft recommendation are based on the wrong premise. The Commission's assessment and the Broad Economic Policy Guidelines advises Ireland to seek to achieve economic stability. This is exactly what the Irish government has sought to do in the budget in a number of ways,

We made it quite clear to the French authorities that it can only be in very specific, limited circumstances,