Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-02-02-Speech-4-026"
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"en.20060202.4.4-026"2
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Mr President, the EU is charging vehicles again for roads already paid for by national taxes. The EU will maintain nothing, so this is a scam. Lorries and coaches will pay: scam 1, a daily charge of EUR 8; plus scam 2, an annual charge of up to EUR 1 400; plus scam 3, tolls based on distance travelled; plus scam 4, an urban mark-up of 25% under the Euro-vignette; plus scam 5, an estimated EUR 1 500 to change to a digital tachograph; plus scam 6, driver-specific photo licences – in short, ID cards; and scam 7, EUR 3.5 billion paid by EU citizens because each vehicle will be tracked by Galileo, described as the biggest, whitest elephant ever to become weightless. But will this reduce congestion and emissions? Should buses and coaches be the first category to be charged? The answer is no.
500 million Europeans travelled by coach in 2005, many of them elderly people. This legislation encourages smaller vehicles, creating greater congestion, emissions and expense. But emission-sensitive charging already exists: it is called fuel duty. Is that too simple for the EU?
However, the cost of all this is really about EU taxation for a centralised Europe and funding a satellite, is it not? It has nothing to do with roads."@en1
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