Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-11-21-Speech-4-041"
| Predicate | Value (sorted: default) |
|---|---|
| rdf:type | |
| dcterms:Date | |
| dcterms:Is Part Of | |
| dcterms:Language | |
| lpv:document identification number |
"en.20021121.2.4-041"2
|
| lpv:hasSubsequent | |
| lpv:speaker | |
| lpv:spokenAs | |
| lpv:translated text |
"Mr President, Commissioner, I agree with what Mr Monti said in a recent interview, namely that the considerable gap between growth and unemployment rates, which puts Europe at a disadvantage compared with the United States, is caused to a large extent by economic structures in this continent which continue to be much less open to competition. In my view, a competitive economy open to competition would bring tangible social benefits in the European countries.
The Commissioner thus concluded that we need an even more vigorous competition policy than that in the United States, and we should give him credit for having pursued it, even accepting the risk of making mistakes or in any case, making judgments different from those made by judicial bodies called upon in some cases to decide.
With regard to state aid, in particular, Europe is set to face an extremely important challenge over the next few years in the current negative economic climate. Efforts to recover state aid are being made alongside protectionism and state intervention in the economy: a perilous path to take. The Treaties wisely set strict limits on state aid and these limits must be preserved and confirmed, not least where governments seek to misuse or liberally distribute state aid, something they will increasingly seek to do.
There are other unresolved issues: former state monopolists – starting with EDF, Enel, France Télécom, Deutsche Telekom – state aid for broadcasting, state aid in the event of structural adjustments and, in this context, also state aid disguised as something else.
Mr President, I will close by saying that the Italian Radical Members will vote for the Riis-Jørgensen and Evans amendments, which will make the Herzog report more balanced."@en1
|
Named graphs describing this resource:
The resource appears as object in 2 triples