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The report highlights the poor development in trans-European networks in the area of transport, particularly the rail network, as well as in the interconnection between energy networks. This poor development is the by-product of developing the European economy within restricted national frameworks. But trans-European infrastructures also suffer from this “scarcity of government funding” criticised in the report.
In order to overcome this scarcity, the rapporteur is happy simply to tempt those with private capital with additional subsidies.
We voted against the report because we are opposed to using public money to increase private profits. Furthermore, the aim of increased interconnection in the gas and electricity markets is not to rationalise energy distribution throughout the Union, but to completely open up the gas and electricity market to competition, which is one step further, particularly in France, towards the privatisation of EDF and GDF, a process that we reject wholeheartedly.
Rather than continuing to favour large companies and their shareholders, we should instead be taxing them more, so that the various States or the European Community can finance a transport network for the twenty-first century. We are not so naïve, however, as to expect this to be achieved by the current European institutions, which are all completely committed to private interests."@en1
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