Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-12-10-Speech-1-109"
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"Mr President, I, like everybody else, or perhaps most other people in this House, want a single market. But I do not want a market where competition rules supreme. Regulation is necessary both economically and socially. If you have no competition, you will have no service innovation, but if you have cut-throat competition, you will not have service innovation either. It is necessary therefore to get the balance right. So, I would suggest to the Commission and Council that Parliament is offering them an opportunity to improve the balance of the package before them, and I would urge them to accept the proposals being put forward by Parliament.
By coincidence, the Commission came forward today with a working document on the performance of industries providing services of general economic interest, and this also covered telecoms. That document indicates that liberalisation in general is having a net beneficial effect, but I would suggest to the Commission that they need to come forward with a lot more research and hard evidence in relation to specific sectors to convince me that it is true in all cases.
Finally, I would suggest that the Commission needs urgently to take on board the suspicions regarding price-fixing with regard to roaming mobile telephone calls."@en1
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