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"Madam President, I should like to raise an issue which I raised at the previous part-session, that is, the predicament of national airlines in Europe which are currently facing effective annihilation. It is reckoned that approximately EUR 2.5 billion will be lost by the European aviation industry between now and the end of the year, and that some 20 000 jobs will be lost. The Commission response to this, however, has been stony-faced and ideological. It has sought to use the crisis arising from the atrocities of 11 September to shake out the industry to ensure that companies that may or may not have survived in the normal course of economic operations are forced to close down.
I would appeal to the Commission to use some political sagacity in its approach to this situation. If the European project does not have the support of the people of Europe it will not succeed, and the Commission is failing to recognise this. Every single job lost in the European aviation industry as a result of the Commission's decision, will create an ever-widening pool of resentment towards Europe, not towards national governments which may be pursuing their own agendas. The Commission must urgently review its approach to the aviation industry.
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