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"Mr President, Mrs De Palacio, ladies and gentlemen, the airline market is an example of how national egoism is crumbling. No one can have the sky to himself. The liberalised airline market makes the free movement of goods and people possible and you can even find your very own flight attendant on board an aircraft, which is what happened to me. We can promote competition through proper control of slots. Mr Stockmann has in my opinion succeeded splendidly in balancing the position of the large dominant companies with the need of new, dynamic companies to exploit their own innovative approach. Consumers and the business world will benefit significantly from this sort of development both in the form of lower prices and new services.
At this stage the Commission has submitted a proposal to us that is slightly larger and broader in scope than the original one, but we cannot wait around for a year in a rapidly developing aviation industry. I therefore earnestly support the approach that has been chosen. It is of crucial importance to open up the market to the new entrants and it is more than fair that they should have half the vacant slots. The slots must also be fairly allocated to foreign companies. Protectionism must have its wings clipped, whatever the cost. Good air connections have intrinsic value, but that is something national airlines cannot have. Monopolies are the poor man’s worst enemy, and new Sabenas simply cannot any longer be supported out of the taxpayer’s pocket.
Next we must create transatlantic airspace and end the bilateral agreements between the Member States of the EU and the United States of America. The current practice very obviously favours the Americans, and I also expect the Commission to act quickly after the Court of Justice has given a decision in this matter.
There is still a lot of room in the airline industry for greater efficiency, and that might be said of us here too in the European Parliament, and for that reason I will end my speech here."@en1
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