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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, efforts to enable the revitalisation of Europe’s railways began back in 1994. The third railway package now concludes our legislative efforts. The current proposal decided, and decides, on the necessary harmonisation in the technical, administrative and, partly, the social field, along with the gradual liberalisation of all railway services by 2012.
This puts in place the preconditions for a European railway culture, with which the railways can regain their significance and competitiveness within the pan-European transport system. The liberalisation efforts in rail transport are not prompted by ideological convictions, but by necessity in terms of transport policy. They owe their existence to the fact that the internal market, the European Economic Area and also the European cultural area need the railways as a mode of transport that does not operate only in separate part-markets. Particularly on the long, cross-border sections, the railways have inherent systemic advantages. This comprehensive reorientation is the only way of countering the heavy losses in terms of transport volume suffered by the railways: in favour of the roads in the case of freight transport, and in favour of the low-cost airlines as well as the roads in the case of passenger transport. It is understandable that some employees should feel anxious about such a radical change. Yet the 18 years that have elapsed between 1994 and 2012 serve to guarantee that it has been, and continues to be, possible to carry through all these changes in a socially viable way.
In anticipation of the passenger-rail market organisation, the ICE 3 was approved for France last week, and the TGV will probably follow in the coming year. There will then be direct high-speed trains from Paris to South Germany. Those responsible have read the signs of the times. Adopting the third railway package would mean that we, too, had read the signs of the times. In order to proceed with further revitalisation of the railways, we must put on our agenda the full harmonisation of the conditions of competition between the various modes of transport, finding new sources of finance for the rail infrastructure, and particularly a strategy for improving integration of modes of transport as intermodal passenger transport."@en1
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