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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the Socialists say yes to the Stability and Growth Pact, which is something that we need. Stability cannot be an end in itself, it must serve growth. Europe needs a more innovative policy for growth. To achieve this, we must invest more in European infrastructures. The collective profitability of infrastructures is always much higher than their direct financial profitability. How many regions of Europe have experienced greater development due to a network of high speed trains, due to a new motorway, a more modern port or an airport?
The communication networks and energy transmission networks are also a factor in development and growth. Ten years after the launch of the trans-European networks (TEN), we must point out that few projects launched back then have been completed. What is worse, the increase in mobility has resulted in all the existing infrastructural networks being saturated. Those who advocate the liberalisation of the energy markets do not seem to be aware of the obvious lack of existing inter-connections for energy transmission. Similarly, those who desire a liberalisation of rail transport do not seem to be aware that the existing capacities on the rail networks are already saturated. This is true of passenger transport and freight transport.
We clearly need to extend trans-European networks in all areas. This is a typical Community policy since the trans-European networks, the name says it all, Mr President, do not stop at national borders but serve the entire European economy. The Commission would therefore be well advised to make improvements to trans-European networks and to extend all these networks.
Trans-European networks must receive European financing. The Union’s budget and the European Investment Bank must be used. Public and private finance is necessary. The European infrastructural policy serves growth, serves immediate employment but above all it serves growth and therefore employment, in the medium and long term.
I would like to finish, Mr President, by thanking the two rapporteurs, and especially my colleague Mr Bruno Trentin, for the 2002 report."@en1
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