Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-03-24-Speech-2-423"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2009-03-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Future of the car industry (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20090324.32.2-423"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-03-24-Speech-2-4242
lpv:speaker	lp:Gunnar Hökmark2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Israel (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; EPP-ED (2007-02-15--2009-07-13)3 member; ECON (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ITRE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with Afghanistan (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Moderata Samlingspartiet (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the problems that the European car industry is facing are to a large extent a result of the economic and financial crisis. In that respect, it is hopefully a problem that will pass. However, in another very important respect, it is also a problem that has to do with overcapacity. Therefore, in order to safeguard the future of the European car industry, it is extremely important for us to ensure that it can be based on realistic and sensible business plans and have responsible ownership. This prompts me to say that if we are to succeed in retaining a successful car industry in Europe with all the opportunities that entails for technical development, healthy employment and the role that the car industry plays in the European economy, the state aid that is currently granted by the Member States must be used to guarantee its survival through the recession and the financial crisis, but not to distort competition between Member States or between car manufacturers. State aid that distorts competition and creates mistrust between Member States in actual fact jeopardises the European car industry’s ability to survive, and this is the context in which I would like to put the question about what has now happened in Slovenia and France and the state aid that has been granted in France. One of the Commission’s most important tasks is to ensure that there is no infringement of the rules that have been set out, to monitor what has happened and to create complete confidence in the fact that no state aid is granted to the detriment of any other Member State or any other car industry. Aid that leads to a distortion of competition undermines the future of the European car industry and will have negative consequences for both employment and technical development."@en1
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