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Members voted against the Torres Marques report, which calls for a European tourism policy. We believe that this area is the responsibility of the national, even regional or local, authorities, and that cooperation should not be forced.
Yet the Commission and the European Parliament have been working relentlessly for years, firstly with a ‘communication’, then a ‘White Paper’, at an ‘informal meeting’, then an ‘own-initiative report’, to take over this responsibility. The Commission has set up its own internal ‘Tourism Unit’ and Parliament has allocated responsibility for tourism to one of its parliamentary committees. They succeeded in slipping the words ‘tourism for all’ into the conclusions of the recent Council meeting in Bruges. The Spanish Presidency has just produced a ‘working document’ on the subject, which even mentions the ‘ethical dimension’ of tourism. They all want European competences, European funding and European staff for tourism.
The Torres Marques report that we examined today concludes by calling on the Convention considering the future of the Union to propose that the tourist sector has ‘a solid legal basis enabling it to give force to Community measures’. Is this not an admission that everything that has been done so far in this area has no legal basis?"@en1
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