Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-05-03-Speech-3-086"
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"Mr President, growth and employment in Europe depend to a large degree upon exploiting European infrastructure effectively. We should therefore have already set in motion the TEN projects that have still to get off the ground. It is no secret that I am very much in favour of a permanent link between Denmark and Germany, and I am glad that the new Danish Minister for Transport is also a supporter of the project. However, I am a little put out that German politicians are rather less enthusiastic. There has previously been some doubt as to whether a permanent link across the Fehmarn Belt is the way forward, but any such doubt has now been shown to be groundless. All the inquiry reports from the Danish and German Ministries of Transport show that there are neither environmental nor financial problems with building a bridge. With a faster and easier link between Denmark and Germany, we can build bridges to the new democracies in the East. We are not only building a bridge in physical terms, for practical purposes. We are building a bridge between countries to help industry and for human, political, social and cultural reasons. Building a permanent link between Germany and Denmark will create many new and much-needed jobs in the area. There are almost always people who automatically say ‘no’ to anything new. Anything which brings about change is a little frightening, whether it be EMU, the euro, environmentalism or a bridge. One should not, however, be afraid of something good. A link across the Fehmarn Belt is an exciting, rather than a frightening project. Finally, I should like to add my voice to the call to increase the budget appropriations for the trans-European transport networks, as they are quite inadequate. Improved growth and employment require sums of a quite different order."@en1
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