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"Mr President, I would like warmly to congratulate Mr Cramer on the exhaustiveness of his report, which deals in a skilful and in-depth manner with all of the problems that we need to overcome in order to achieve full interoperability and facilitate the removal of rail borders.
We must also accept that the vote in committee – I believe – improved his initial proposal, by extending it and making it less restrictive, amongst other things acknowledging the efforts of those countries that are already applying it.
I am talking about countries such as my own, Spain, where forty years of dictatorship left us completely isolated – as is currently the case with the Baltic countries which are historically linked to Russia, also by a railway of a different gauge – as a result of a different gauge of track, in addition to problems with mountains.
The enormous efforts that we have had to make in Spain in order to renew our rail network with European funding have led us to directly apply the European signalling and speed control systems, which we are currently discussing. It seemed natural to the Spanish to overcome our historical backwardness and to allow ourselves to be led by our Europeanism, opting clearly for an integrated system such as the ERTMS, which represents the future of the railways.
In fact, I am delighted because over recent weeks – and I hope that the delegation from the Committee on Transport and Tourism that will visit my region next week will be able to see this – we have managed to overcome and resolve a technical problem involving the ERTMS, which has meant that we have been able to reduce the distance enormously and make passenger transport by rail in Spain even more attractive. In the future we will clearly have to resolve certain problems relating to goods transport by rail, such as level crossings with barriers."@en1
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