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We are all aware of the major role that tourism plays in the European economy and of its huge potential for growth and for developing employment. It is also well known that the issue of tourism has already been addressed on several occasions at ministerial summits and in European Council conclusions, and its importance as a driving force for the economic growth of the Union, particularly in the least-developed regions, underlined. Consequently, on behalf of the CDS/Partido Popular of Portugal, we welcome the Commission proposal, although we agree to a large extent with the criticism made by the rapporteur, Mrs Torres Marques, who considered it to be rather ineffectual and lacking in ambition. We also believe that the introduction of the single currency is the ideal launch pad for providing a new boost for the development of tourism in Europe. Furthermore, we welcome the proposal to hold an annual European Forum with the main representatives of the sector. This Forum would help to increase the sector’s European visibility as well as its integration into the various Community policies. We already have reservations, however, about the proposal for an isolated revision of the Treaties in this area, thereby giving Europe competence for tourism too. In fact, the bad experience of so many other sectors in which handing over competence to Europe has led to excessive uniform regulation, continual interference in the field of national and even regional decision making and to constant breaches of the principle of subsidiarity cautions us to be prudent in this area. At least until the matter of the distribution of competences in the European Union is adequately resolved in general, in the framework of the global debate that is currently underway."@en1
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