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"en.20111116.18.3-262-750"2
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"The recast railway package adopted today by a majority in Parliament – including the Portuguese Members from the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the Socialist Party (PS) and the Democratic and Social Centre – People’s Party (CDS-PP) – 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.
This directive will exacerbate the serious consequences for the general public, for workers in the sector and for national economies of the liberalisation and privatisation of the railway sector that has taken place in various countries, with the insistence on the same old idea – which experience has been disproving – that more market and more competition bring better services.
Among the most serious aspects of this directive, the following stand out: the total separation of managing infrastructure and railway operations which is liberalising the railway sector, privatising the profitable areas and leaving to the state areas that require significant finance, like building and maintaining infrastructure.
The proposed fragmentation is tailored to the sector’s multinationals, which are taking over railway transport and colonising related service markets in various countries. The example of German multinational Deutsche Bahn, which controls more than 60% of Europe’s cargo sector, where liberalisation first took hold, is very enlightening."@en1
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