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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in the last few weeks the Italian UDC-SVP delegation has presented a written question to the Commission in order to highlight the contradictions of a European energy policy apparently in crisis.
The decision of the French Government to create another energy giant by breaching the principles of the European market will have negative consequences. The merger between the companies of
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risks setting Member State against Member State just as Europe is about to embark on a 100% liberalisation of the market of this sector. This political initiative flies in the face of all plans for transparency and free competition, replacing, in fact, the right to financial wrangling that ought to be a part of a single market.
Furthermore, France’s adoption of the directive on takeover bids, which the National Assembly will, after a long silence, take up tomorrow, gives cause for concern. A draft law such as this could obstruct
’s potential capital transactions by granting excessive powers to companies that are subject to a takeover bid. Faced with such an anomaly, we had no choice but to raise the problem responsibly, asking ourselves what kind of energy policy our Europe intends to pursue.
We wish to make clear in this House, Mr President, our fear of a dangerous drift towards a Europe made up of nations that are against the ideals and spirit of the Treaties, and against the spirit and values handed down to us by Alcide De Gasperi, Konrad Adenauer, Robert Schumann and Jean Monnet.
A Europe that has created for itself a single currency, that seeks to harmonise laws, legislation, statutes and institutions, that has created a central bank and that has established the Schengen area, cannot be reduced to a game in which national interests prevail over community interests, and where policy is fast taking the place of the market.
The prospect of a pan-European industrial context, relaunched by President Barroso with the approval of the Green Paper on Energy, at last gives cause for hope. The Commission’s main objectives in the coming months must be to create open markets that benefit the consumer and to focus on global European policies that protect against national self-interests."@en1
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