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"Mr President, of course we are all in favour of lower charges when travelling abroad with our mobiles – you would have to be insane to be against that, but that is only one part of the equation. When we in this House oblige the operators to lower their roaming charges they have to find the money from elsewhere, and that will usually mean raising the charges for those who do not travel.
This is, in other words, a tax on non-travellers for the benefit of travellers. There will be teenagers in council estates in my constituency who are now facing higher charges so that a number of businesspeople, MEPs and Commissioners can talk more cheaply when abroad.
I have to say we were not disinterested parties. All of us involved in this vote stand to gain very substantially from the kind of regulations that we have been pushing through in this field over the last year. If you want to understand how power has shifted in Europe, you need only read this report. ‘Who whom?’, asked Lenin in perhaps the pithiest statement of political philosophy ever uttered. Who has the power, and over whom does he wield it? Well, there can no longer be much doubt over who has the power: we do – we Eurocrats."@en1
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