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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Commission’s aim is to foster the development of the air sector in the European Union and to help airlines to consolidate, to be competitive, to provide a good service for passengers. The Commission also wishes to enable economic development to take place.
I am fully aware that Olympic Airways is an extremely important company for Greece’s economic activity and that it also has a marked affect on the economic activity of the European Union as a whole. Having said all of this, however, I must add that what we are talking about here – as I said before about 1994 and 1998 – is simply the way in which these decisions have been implemented, having been authorised at the time in line with the information that was available to us. We have, furthermore, requested confirmation and details from the Greek administration.
What I would most like to see, however, and I repeat, is for the Olympic affair to be resolved in a positive way, for all the initiatives and the work undertaken by the Greek authorities to privatise Olympic to reach a positive conclusion and simply not to see this type of information about further alleged aid from the Greek Government. I cannot tell you how much happier I would be if Olympic had no problems and if we were not having to look into this matter now."@en1
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