Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-11-16-Speech-3-150-000"
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"Mr President, I voted against this report. Unbundling of infrastructure management and operation of transport services is good, but we already have that in the UK.
Calling for additional financing in Member States for a TEN-T is problematic at a time of economic crisis. In fact, in my country, the cost of a new high-speed rail link – HS2 – is causing such an outcry that the government is trying to portray the project as a domestic necessity, rather than part of an EU-wide project.
Even the UK state broadcaster, the BBC, seems to have fallen for this deception. The first railway package of 2001 was such a failure that the Commission had to take 13 Member States to the Court of Justice for failure to implement it properly. The truth is they probably could not afford to implement it properly.
Since 2001, the percentage of freight being moved by rail has actually fallen: the exact opposite of what this package is set to achieve."@en1
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