Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-05-03-Speech-3-104"

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dcterms:Date	"2000-05-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European airline industry2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000503.6.3-104"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-05-03-Speech-3-1052
lpv:speaker	lp:Efstratios Korakas2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AGRI (1999-07-21--2001-02-07)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Hungary Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-04--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, according to the Commission proposal adopted by our rapporteur, Mr Sterckx, the main stated aim is to liberalise air transport further and make it subject to the rules of the free market. In this way, or so the Commission and our rapporteur tell us, we will see reduced expenditure on the part of airlines, better passengers services and more innovation. It is therefore proposed that airports, with all the strategic importance which they have for a country’s safety, should be surrendered to the multinationals, despite the negative implications this would have, and that the aspirations of private-sector airport owners to reap maximum profits should be promoted. It is also proposed that the sovereign right of each country to control air traffic in its air space should be surrendered to the European Union, on the pretext of establishing a uniform system of air safety. At the same time, the proposal calls for the privatisation of the operational bodies responsible for air traffic control which, it says, will be responsible for all the EU’s air space and will compete with each other. This proposal, aside from abrogating the sovereign right of each country over its own air space, will give rise to confusion and will have particularly negative and dangerous repercussions on air safety as, objectively speaking, the competition which is being vaunted here as the trump card will be competition for maximum profit and not for maximum air safety. The proposal argues that all this will reduce flight delays and hence the expenditure of the airlines. And maybe it will. Nonetheless, as experience with similar cases shows, it is doubtful whether a rise in profits will mean cheaper tickets or improved services. On the contrary, the situation will deteriorate. It is also proposed to end state aid to airlines. This, however, will prove disastrous for air connections to and from disadvantaged areas. Greece is a typical example. This ignores the indisputable fact, as the experience of official organisations and trade unions for workers in the civil aviation industry around the world has shown, that constant reductions in the running costs of aircraft and ground services, together with wall-to-wall privatisation and the private sector’s goal of maximum profit, are the reason for the continuous rise in the number of air accidents. These are the reasons why we shall be voting against the report."@en1

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