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"Mr President, try as we might, the views of Europe’s citizens, especially those who are doing their best to keep public rail services alive against all odds, are clearly not being heard.
We are moving inexorably towards the complete liberalisation of the railways and the dismantling of public rail services throughout Europe, in the name of free competition, in this case disguised under the fine title of ‘non-discriminatory access to infrastructures and services’. What do the users’ interests matter? What does it matter if the cost of rail transport is constantly rising? What does it matter if the number of rail accidents is increasing, or that instead of guaranteeing access for all, train travel is becoming increasingly inaccessible to the most disadvantaged, while those who can afford it have access to ever more extravagant services? What does it matter if these policies are steadily pushing freight transport onto the roads, with the environmental repercussions of which we are all aware.
To top it all, the European Parliament is out of line: it wants to go further than the Council and is sidestepping codecision, while the Commission and unelected regulatory bodies will be given exorbitant powers.
We clearly do not share the same vision of public interest or, at any rate, that of the socialist rapporteur. It will be too late to try to save our public services after they have been completely demolished."@en1
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