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"Mr President, in supporting Mr Miller's general line about this report and in particular his points about water, I want to draw special attention to Amendment No 13. It would be a very illiberal doctrine to say that liberalisation should be pursued in an inflexible way, insensitive to local realities. We ought to look at, for example, the case of remoter parts of the European Union. We should therefore, for example, welcome the flexibility in relation to local transport services indicated by the recent Altmark judgment. Unfortunately, however, the Commission has said that this cannot possibly apply to ferries. Buses are not ferries – indeed they are not – but transport is transport, by sea and by land.
Mr Miller mentioned the problem of Railtrack in the United Kingdom. Split the ownership of the rails from the ownership of the trains and you get a crazy situation. In Scotland it seems that we are about to split the ownership of the ships from the ownership of the companies that sail them. Railtrack by sea! This is liberalisation pursued in an extreme and inflexible way. Mr Bolkestein is a frequent and always welcome visitor to Scotland. I hope that on his next visit to the Hebrides he does not have to travel under an assumed name to hide his responsibility for the fiasco which is about to be wished upon us!"@en1
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