Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-09-27-Speech-2-426-500"
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"I voted against this report today. No one could disagree with the common objective of the EU Member States of halving the number of road traffic fatalities. Almost 100 people are still dying on Europe’s roads every day. The goal is clear – the question is how to get there. Transport policy is, and remains, a national, regional and partly local issue. Successes are only achieved if they are closely based on the reality of people’s lives. Europe is not the right arena for this. Even if all the proposals were scientifically based, this is still not a matter for the EU. The best example of this is the scientifically-based proposal that, in future, children under three years of age should only travel in secure, rear-facing car seats. As a young father, I am well aware that no child aged two or three will want to sit facing backwards on the rear seat. What is more, drivers can no longer see their children, so who knows what might happen. This own-initiative report is superfluous. Signals like this are counter-productive, particularly in the current climate of crisis. We must concentrate on essentials."@en1
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