Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-10-23-Speech-1-044"
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"en.20061023.15.1-044"2
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"Mr President, two weeks ago, there was a train crash on the line between Luxembourg and France. That crash left six people dead and a dozen injured. I should therefore like to offer my condolences to the victims’ families. After an accident such as that, we must move forward.
One of the problems on the cross-border railways is that their safety systems vary greatly from one country to the next. Luxembourg has a different system to Belgium, which itself has a different system to France, which has a different system to Germany. Luxembourg’s railways are therefore confronted with three different systems, in addition to their own.
The best solution, after this crash, is to increase the investment in the European safety system, ERTMS. I hope that the European Commission will make Luxembourg and the wider Luxembourg region a pilot region for the introduction of new systems and arrangements.
I also believe that the flagship train, namely the TGV that will link Paris to Luxembourg as from next year, which absolutely must be …"@en1
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