Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-03-11-Speech-1-085"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-03-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Postal services2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020311.7.1-085"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-03-11-Speech-1-0862
lpv:speaker	lp:Konstantinos Hatzidakis2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Nea Dimokratia (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (2002-03-08--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I should like to thank Mr Ferber for a job extremely well done, for his patience and good will and for his willingness to work with all sides of the European Parliament and with the Council and the Commission. Thanks to Mr Ferber's hard work, we have what I think is a first class result with what appeared to be an exceptionally tricky issue. When the debate started and during the first reading, we all saw huge problems in store, with major differences between the various political persuasions in the House. The vote, in committee at least a few days ago, demonstrated that a large majority in the European Parliament agreed with the positions put forward just now by the rapporteur. What we were looking to do was to reconcile two needs: first, the need to safeguard the universal service, a universal service in island regions, in mountain regions and in remote regions of the European Union and, secondly, the need for a free, competitive market, the need to guarantee a single market in this sector by widening consumer choice. And I think that, in the end, we managed to find a creative way of reconciling these two needs. So we have a good result, both for those worried about losing the universal service and for those who wanted to advance the single market and widen consumer choices. And of course, in doing so, we have carried out the instructions of earlier European Councils, such as the Lisbon Council, which talked of the need to push ahead and extend the market in the postal services sector. I think that the three amendments proposed by our committee improve things still further and are, I believe, acceptable both to the Commission and the Council."@en1

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