Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-05-21-Speech-1-030"
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"Ladies and gentlemen, in two days’ time we shall be voting on the directive concerning roaming. I should like to emphasise that this is the type of directive that affects every citizen of the European Union, as most citizens in the Union own a mobile telephone.
The adoption of the directive will undoubtedly be hailed a great success. Nonetheless, it seems to be just one small step in the right direction. A start has been made, however, and we are trying to become more citizen-friendly.
I would like to suggest that roaming should be the subject of some kind of broader consultation. In Germany, for example, roaming affects around 100 million people, whereas in small countries like Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, roaming only affects, let us say, a couple of million people. This is unfair, and I therefore believe that despite the step forward that adoption of the directive in question would represent, we should consider the longer term and how to lift roaming barriers between countries."@en1
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