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"Mr President, I wish to support Commissioner Lamy on the far-sighted and important programme he is pursuing.
The whole question about the importance of services and opening up service markets is one we are about to address seriously within our own internal market. We do not yet have an internal market for services. I expect we will hear some of the concerns in the debates tonight when we look at our own market. However, it is absolutely right to address broader issues. After all, as Mr Lamy has said on a number of occasions, within the European Union we have the best-developed single market technologies of any trading bloc in the world. It is right that we should be leading in this field.
One of the most important proposals we have worked on here is the liberalisation of electronic communications, a single framework for a converging sector. It is those electronic communications that are really opening up the way to a global trade in services that we have never seen before. It is right to anticipate that. Liberalisation is always going to be difficult. If you accept market disciplines and the opening-up of a market, you must expect reconstruction; you must expect firms to close and look for new possibilities. Surely we are not saying here that we should go back to the days of protectionism? Far from it! We want to look at how markets will evolve.
That includes the developing world as well. A couple of months ago I was at an important meeting in Brussels, with representatives from the developing world talking about electronic communications and how they want to build their infrastructures. They realise that having the infrastructure in place is going to open up great opportunities for their own economies and for trade globally. That is what we want to encourage. Let us be positive about it. I urge you, Commissioner, to continue your work on this and not listen to the siren voices in this Chamber tonight that are urging you to stop or slow down. Let us move ahead!"@en1
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