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"Mr President, the European Commission’s proposal amending the 1997 Directive on opening up the Community’s postal services to competition was justified and expected.
It was justified because it is in keeping with the logic of the founding Treaties of the European Union which prioritise the establishment of the internal market through the free movement of goods and services in a competitive environment. Justified too, since 1990, by the positions successively adopted by the European Councils devoted to this sector. Justified, finally, by the Lisbon European Council which, a few months ago, asked for this process to be speeded up.
It was expected, too, because the Commission was behindhand in implementing the commitments specified in the 1997 Directive. However, the European Commission’s and Commissioner Bolkestein’s proposals have unleashed quite a commotion. These proposals were logical enough, however. What an outcry, though! The compromise proposed in Mr Ferber’s report lags way behind the European Commission’s reasonable proposal, which is very modest – too modest, I fear – given the need for modernisation of the European economy. And when, this morning, I see the whole of the European left wing congratulating Mr Ferber, I remain very sceptical about this compromise. At this rate, it will be 60 years before the internal market has been completed in the area of postal services. What temerity, but, above all, what a delay!
I cannot therefore help but draw a parallel with the outcome of the recent Nice European Council. In the run-up to Nice, there were great proposals and noble ambitions. At the Nice Summit itself there were great speeches but, at the end of the day, little was achieved. In the same way, the great flights of rhetoric, here in this debate, on the need to build the new Europe do little to conceal the faint-heartedness and conservatism that exist. All we can now do is hope that, one day, we shall be able to move on from the present stasis and give real impetus to the European project by overcoming the various forms of self-aggrandising corporatism."@en1
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