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"Mr President, Commissioner, I too believe that the principle of mutual recognition is one of the keys to developing the single market. In the few seconds that I have available, I do, however, want to focus on the much-discussed issue of water. The water, or water services, sector is, and will be, crucial in Europe too. I believe that it would be unreasonable, especially in this sector, to forego the efficiency that can derive from liberalisation and competition. The ownership of water is not at stake, contrary to what someone, not in this House, has said. Nor are we concerned here with the privatisation of water, but merely with opening up the water services market, which is often managed in an inefficient way by public, local and national monopolies. To those who say ‘come and look at the railways in Great Britain’, I would say, ‘come and see the public water mains in Italy, including the major ones, together with the waste of water resources and of public money’. I am not saying that there has to be a dogma, but I believe that opening up public services to competition and the market is actually a move towards a social Europe."@en1
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