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"Mr President, we now have a result from the Conciliation Committee concerning transit through Austria. I am speaking on behalf of my group, the Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left. The group is opposed to this compromise because it would mean a general deterioration of the environment. As I myself read the proposal, however, it is a useful compromise in which Parliament has had a very large proportion of its wishes met. An acceptable balance has been found between consideration for the environment and respect for the free exchange of goods. The proposal means that the ecopoint system can continue throughout 2004, with the option of extending it both in 2005 and 2006. By that time, we shall hopefully at long last have achieved an overall system of road tolls for the whole of the EU. Before we reach that point, however, there are still a number of problems of which both opponents and supporters of the compromise are required to take account with regard to Austria. If we are finally to get to grips with the problem of pollution, we have to think along different, and new, lines. We must move transported goods off the roads and onto the railways. As matters appear right now, there is not much to indicate that there is sufficient will to increase capacity but, as with everything else in the world, you do not get something for nothing. This means that the Austrians are obliged to concentrate upon railway capacity through Austria. As I say, the Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left is opposed to the proposal by the Conciliation Committee, but I personally shall vote in favour of it.
I should also like to say to the fellow MEP of mine who put on a demonstration in this House that I think it splendid that he has already begun his election campaign, but he would do better to conduct his demonstration at home in Austria instead of here in Parliament, in which case he and his vacuous demonstration would not, of course, be photographed, however."@en1
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