Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-12-14-Speech-2-118"

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lpv:translated text	". Mr President, thank you very much for the question that I have been asked. I would like to begin by saying to Carlos Lage that what the Commission has approved today – the Media Plus programme – is entirely consistent with a strategy that has been developed by this Commission within the framework of the so-called I-Europe programme. And this will culminate – we hope – in the decisions of next March’s Extraordinary European Council meeting in Lisbon. What we need to do is to prepare Europe, both in terms of infrastructure and of the content production industry, for the challenge of the information age which means of course that we are assuming that Europe has the ambition to participate in the new digital economy and in the new society of culture and information on a global scale. As for the specific question that Mr Lage asked, we are not trying to establish a strategy based on the logic of protecting competition. It is a question of establishing a strategy with which, whilst accepting the rules of free competition, we can support European creation as well as distribution in order to be able to face this competition more successfully. Therefore, it is not a question of there being less competition, but of fairer competition which is given greater support by the European courts."@en1

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