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Yesterday evening, I gave Mr Caudron the opportunity to make his final speech after 15 years as a Member of the European Parliament as he is due to retire shortly. He presented our group's final position on the railway package, making it clear that this liberalisation proposal is suitable for a Europe quite different from the one the Confederal Group of the European United Left would like to see.
In 2000, the European Commission tried to force the Member States to privatise the whole of public transport. Since this Parliament excluded significant portions of urban and regional transport from this attempt on 14 November 2001, the Commission has turned its attention to the railways. It wants to liberalise not only international freight services but also domestic passenger services. In the meantime, we have gained bad experiences of this in the Netherlands. The move to sell shares in the state-run rail company Nederlandse Spoorwegen on the stock market appeared to lead to neglect of rolling stock and rail infrastructure, delays and industrial unrest and so has been stopped. This was done not as a political choice but because staff, passengers and eventually politicians too learned the lessons. The provision of train services by a competing company, since bought up by the international transport giant Connex-Vivendi, has also been terminated. Similar plans for Europe are now being held up by the Council, but are still not off the agenda."@en1
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