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Air transport provides one of the many examples of the fact that the so-called European Union is, more than anything else, the cobbling together of the conflicting interests of Member States and their trust companies and major industrial groups. The European authorities would like Europe to be a bloc in worldwide competition. They have been no more able to achieve this in the air-transport sector than they have elsewhere, because the big European companies are also in competition with one another. When it is in their interests to associate with or sign agreements with non-European companies, and in particular American companies, the opinion of the European institutions will not be able to prevent them from doing so.
The author of the report, a supporter of free competition, seeks to reconcile the desire to achieve added value for the Community’s airlines with the desire to tame the savage nature of their rivalries. Let the defenders of capitalist Europe shift for themselves in seeking to square the circle. We, on the other hand, are voting against this report, because we are against this system based on competition which, whether regulated or not, makes an enormous mess of things."@en1
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