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"Mr President, the International Transport Agency anticipates that a total of 200 000 people will lose their jobs in the airline industry worldwide in the wake of the attacks. This organisation also expects that the total losses incurred in this industry will amount to 7 billion this year, and that it will take twelve months before the industry will recover. That is what we are facing here: a worldwide crisis which has major ramifications for Europe. That is point one. Point two – and this has already been mentioned by a number of speakers – is that this industry had been in a very bad way for a long time.
I often have to take the floor when we deal with enormous job losses, and it is always a sad occasion. This time is no exception. However, there is something peculiar about it this time round. Part of the guilty party is sitting directly opposite me, namely the Council itself. We ask in our resolution for a European airline industry and a European airline policy. What the Council has offered us is a policy of national carriers where everyone acts in their own self-interest and everyone wants to conclude their own agreements with the United States. Mr De Rossa said that the national carrier is as sacred as the national anthem. If that is the attitude, then we will never solve the problem, of course. If we all act in our own self-interest, we will be unable to reach a European solution. We will then end up in a frosty restructuring programme, which is exactly what is now threatening to happen. I think we are all agreed that that should not happen, but we must get the idea out of our heads that we can still have national carriers in this internal market. It is impossible to pursue sound social policy if the economic backdrop is in total disarray, and as far as that is concerned, the Council is innocent in all of this. The Commission has made a very good effort. There are many proposals before us, but these have all been rejected by the Council. The first thing the Council should allow the Commission to do is to talk with the United States on its own. If that is not done, other things should not be discussed either."@en1
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