Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-07-03-Speech-2-194-000"
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"Mr President, I have to say, having listened to the previous colleagues, that this should have been a priority in the first place.
We should have been looking at completing the single market rather than focusing on trying to complete a eurozone without actually getting it right in the first place. Having one currency, 17 different spending decisions, and one set of interest rates was a project that was always going to get into trouble: it would either be derailed or actually hit the buffers. That is what we were going to find that project.
What we are finding with the single European railway area is a drive towards more competition, and this is what we want to see. We want to see more competition so that passengers benefit from this; they can have a choice of carrier. We should also encourage open-access carriers as much as possible, so that we do not see monopolies of carriers on the same piece of track.
It is interesting when we look at this that we are asking for more competition in a single market. Yet when it comes to the eurozone, we are saying no competition when it comes to currencies because if you have a market, you have to have the same currency. We have to get the message right."@en1
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