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Economies of scale have their disadvantages, but are sometimes necessary. This particularly applies in the case of long-distance traffic. This traffic crosses national borders, so responsibility for its safety and regulation is shared by more than one country. Previously, something like this would have led to plans for the creation of a single European railway company first of all, and then a single European aviation company with a single European air-traffic safety system. Of course, those monopolies would then have to be under democratic control, in order to prevent abuses of power, wastefulness and nepotism.
The neoliberal ideology has since arrived. Not only service provision, but also maintenance of support infrastructures and monitoring of safety can be handed over to competing undertakings. Work funded with public finances is to be allocated by means of competition, and existing jobs are no longer secure. This causes great unease in those who have to do this work.
It is a good thing that national borders and military zones lose their importance in the course of the organisation of aviation safety, but that does not mean that the means currently being proposed are the best. It was a surprise a pleasant surprise to hear Commissioner de Palacio yesterday evening inform us in this debate that this proposal is by no means intended for privatisation or liberalisation. However, I fear that, unintentionally, it may well be used for that in the long run."@en1
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