Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-05-03-Speech-3-084"
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"Mr President, we support the development of a trans-European transport network which will favour rail transport over road transport, on the condition, however, that the development of the great trans-European lines does not prejudice suburban transport or so-called district lines. Rail transport, the main lines as well as the district ones, should be a public service, which aims to meet the needs of the population, not to generate private profit. The participation of private capital will necessarily result in a quest for profit, to the detriment both of users and of those who work in the sector. Far too many recent disasters, particularly the one at Paddington station in Great Britain, illustrate the incompatibility between the quest for profit and safety. As stipulated in the explanatory statement of the report, public investment is continually decreasing and in less than twenty years, has fallen from 1.5% of the European Union’s GNP to 0.9%. This has resulted in falling standards in rail transport as a whole as well as staff reductions, which has contributed to keeping unemployment levels high.
If the Member States of the European Union do not adopt a new policy, or, in other words, if they do not prioritise investment in public services rather than endless subsidies to the bosses, any decision on a genuine public transport service operating on a European scale under the best safety conditions will remain nothing but empty rhetoric."@en1
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