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The Commission proposal and the report follow up and flesh out the policy set out in the White Paper on competitiveness, advocating the full liberalisation of the transport market.
The ultimate aim is to increase the return on capital. Proclamations about safe transport and environmental protection are cancelled out by the philosophy of all-out, unaccountable competitiveness.
The report welcomes the fact that a good deal of progress has been made with regard to liberalisation and competitiveness in transport.
Using demand as its criterion, it highlights the advantages of road transport and focuses on the creation of high capacity north-south and east-west corridors. At the same time, it insists on the need to privatise the railways as a precondition for making them profitable. It also supports market access to port services and stresses the need for a uniform taxation and costing policy for transport.
The Commission and the report are indifferent to the impact this policy has and will have on the standard, safety and cost of transport to the general public.
It supports the single European sky, the abolition of national FIRs and flexible civil and military use of airspace; in conjunction with the general border changes taking place in the area as a whole, this spells danger for the security and national independence of countries such as Greece."@en1
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