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"Mr President, once again, while invoking just objectives, what is desired is to pursue aims that are very different. The report refers to environmental objectives, energy efficiency, decarbonisation and interoperability. This is all very well, but there should be clarity about what it is really driving at. Here, we have an insistence on the liberalisation of the transport sector, in other words, the privatisation of everything that could yield a profit, to the detriment of users who see prices rising and security declining; for workers as they lose their rights and are being made redundant; and for national economies, which are deprived of a basic tool for development.
Every country has its needs and priorities at this level, resulting from its own specific characteristics and relative level of development. The question that arises, therefore, is this: what interests will be served by this European transport policy? Will it be the interests of the European multinationals, with their desire to flood the markets with their products swiftly and at minimal cost? This is surely different from the interests of national small and medium-sized enterprises and from the interests of the population, looking on as the railroads close and the price of transport spirals, as is happening in Portugal with the backing of the IMF programme and the EU."@en1
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