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"I voted against the report, because it paves the way for the privatisation of the European railways, with very serious consequences in terms of the public interest, transport safety and passenger rights. The report espouses the prevalent neoliberal philosophy and sets profit as its priority, forgetting that it is the Member States which fund all existing infrastructures and that the public is entitled to a high standard of safe transport. It pushes for further, almost compulsory liberalisation of the railway sector in all the Member States and further divisions between services, operations and maintenance. It therefore fragments the concept of an integrated and safe transport system and backs the philosophy and practice of subcontracting, thereby undermining the rights of workers and passengers and existing European safety measures. The amendments tabled by the left-wing group in the European Parliament in defence of keeping the railways in the public sector and of making safety the priority over profit were voted down by the other political groups, thereby ceding even more ground to speculative private groups and leaving room for action to circumvent workers’ and passengers’ rights."@en1
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