Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-02-18-Speech-5-049"
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"Mr President, the postal service is not a normal service provider like a hairdresser’s or a fitness centre. For us in Finland, a sparsely populated country, a visit to the post office is a social event. In the world of networking, the mail service is the most democratic of all networks. It creates and maintains interpersonal relationships. The common market in postal services will be created on the terms of the marketeers. For us in the north it will mean that the EU will be destroying the social infrastructure. Commissioner Monti, the principle of competition cannot be applied to interpersonal relationships: postal services must be improved, not run down. Only a public mail service can guarantee that information technology is within everyone’s reach in society. The post office is democracy. It is better suited to handling such matters than telecommunications companies. Telecommunications costs have risen as a consequence of companies being bought and sold and marketing costs accounting for more than 50% of companies’ turnover. Democratic investments have to be made to preserve a democratic post office."@en1
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