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Mr President, Commissioner, thank you for attending this debate. Behind each of the speeches there is what I believe to be a fundamental concept. This fundamental concept is the single European transport area, a European area of transport which is not only compatible with European asymmetry but which must actually incorporate it. Europe is not equal – as Mr Sudre has just said – Europe has certain areas of infrastructure, certain peripheral regions, certain areas of cohesion, certain nuclei – more now, with enlargement – which require extremely considerable promotion, but this is not incompatible with the single European transport area.
A few months ago, Commissioner, this House and the Council approved the sixth framework research programme. This programme established the single European area of research.
The Commissioner said to European researchers: we have passed the stage of you meeting to tell each other what you are doing and even to cooperate on friendly terms. It is necessary to create a single European area of research so that all research capacity and effort is focussed on the same projects, has the same objectives and the same territory so that we are not therefore inventing the wheel fifteen times. Therefore, the European research area is the key to understanding all the speeches which this afternoon may have sounded like a rainbow of views which would be difficult to unite. But I can assure you that the vote tomorrow will not produce a blurred picture, as may be assumed on the basis of tonight’s debate, but a clearly defined one. You are fortunate, Commissioner, since this Parliament is saying: go ahead, you have the support of Parliament to formulate into directives the issues you have presented to us in the report on the White Paper, and you have certain additional contributions from the European Parliament which may be useful. Many doors are therefore being opened, and the Council cannot turn a deaf ear to the fundamental demands and the appeal represented by the Transport White Paper that the time has come to take decisions, to create a genuinely European policy, because, in view of this European policy, the effect will be a synergy which will respond to the reticence of those who say that the European Safety Agency will cost money, that the European Transport Fund will not be well used, of those who do not believe that intermodality in one port will benefit the whole of Europe, that investments and corridors, in any area, will benefit around 400 million Europeans once the Union has been enlarged.
Therefore, Commissioner, although there is apparently a rainbow of diversity in this House, I can guarantee that we are very close together.
I will end by thanking all the Members who have participated in this report, because they have offered me many ideas and entirely constructive cooperation."@en1
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