Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-09-27-Speech-2-313"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-09-27"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Community railways2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050927.22.2-313"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-09-27-Speech-2-3142
lpv:speaker	lp:Ewa Hedkvist Petersen2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and to the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-21--2007-01-31)3 member; TRAN (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Arbetarepartiet- Socialdemokraterna (2004-07-20--2007-01-31)3 substitute; REGI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2007-01-31)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I first want to thank our rapporteurs. The railways are needed in Europe. We must offer both freight and passengers the opportunity of rail transport as an alternative to the roads. Rail transport conserves the environment and is good for our productivity. In that case, freight and passengers must be able to travel quickly and smoothly on the railways. That is not the case today. It is not always so easy to put together a journey from A to B, and freight is often left at the borders. In the second railway package, we are opening up the market to freight transport nationally and internationally. It was a good decision, but it still has to be put fully into practice. As everyone agrees, things are still moving slowly and coming up against a host of problems. Should we, however, do as Mr Jarzembowski proposes and open up the railway markets to passenger transport, when the market for freight transport has not yet been successfully opened up? A number of people fear that it will in practice be impossible to get the two things operating together. I come from a country in which we have opened up passenger traffic in our own way. We have done so not through outright deregulation but in, so to speak, a peculiarly Swedish way. We really have seen the opportunities, but we have also seen the difficulties when certain lines are profitable and others are not. That is a difficulty if the ambition is to have passenger traffic throughout the country. It is important to open up the markets for passengers as well, and I am convinced that we shall in time have a national opening-up of passenger traffic too. What, now, I want, however, to recommend is that we begin with passenger traffic. What we also have here are proposed protective clauses for local and regional passenger rail services. The fact is that to decide at this stage about opening up passenger traffic would merely be a case of the European Parliament adopting an idealistic position without its being aware of the consequences."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"international"1 "national"1

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