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"Each Member State should retain full control over how it organises its public services. It is for it, and it alone, to decide in which areas it wishes to provide a public service and how to achieve this. Doubtless it will have to ensure that these services, if they are fully to meet the needs of its people, cannot be paralysed by exclusively corporatist concerns. But it is not acceptable for the Commission to take it upon itself, citing its own broad interpretation of the powers transferred to it in competition matters, to define the nature of the public services from which a nation may or may not benefit. We are against the Monnet method being applied today to postal services and tomorrow to other public services. The Monnet method means in this case the folly of wholesale, stepwise deregulation without any reliable study being carried out beforehand on the consequences of such a policy. Provided that progress is made on the internal market, the Commission is prepared to take the risk, tomorrow, of the social function of postal services being ignored, of the territorial coverage of our countries being eroded, of a deterioration in the quality of the services provided and of an appreciable increase in costs. The impact assessment study will, as usual, be carried out once everything is decided and when there is no turning back. It is because we oppose this logic of the that we voted against the Ferber report and against the common position of the Council and the Commission, which I note, as an aside, is actively supported by one component of the French Government while being fervently contested by its other two components…"@en1
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