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"en.20111116.18.3-262-500"2
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"The recast railway package adopted today constitutes a serious threat to public national rail services, making it more difficult to provide high-quality, safe public transport at prices affordable to the general public. Once again, there is an insistence on the same old idea – clearly disproven by experience in several countries – that more market and more competition lead to better services.
This directive will exacerbate the serious consequences for the general public, leaving them with fewer services, which are of worse quality, and which are also more expensive; for workers, owing to an intensification of labour force exploitation at European level; for safety, which will be dangerously jeopardised, subjugated to free competition; and for national interests, which will be sidelined in a strategic sector, and subjugated to the interests of multinationals.
There are certain aspects of the proposal presented today which are particularly serious and even worrying, for instance, the fact that railway transport safety criteria will be subject to single market competition rules.
This is what stems from forcing competent national authorities to submit security protocols to the opinion of a regulatory body which assesses the compliance of established safety rules with competition rules. Furthermore, it is illustrative of the values and principles which inspire the majority of this Parliament."@en1
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