Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-07-11-Speech-3-205"
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"I voted against the Ferber report because it strengthens the dogmatic neo-liberal approach to the crucial sector of public interest of postal services. The European Commission has insisted intransigently on its initial proposals, despite the acute reactions of ten traditional universal service providers, including the Hellenic Post Offices, petitions by thousands of citizens and the warnings of the European Trade Union Confederation and the Federation of Postal Workers. At the same time, the necessary studies on the impact of the liberalisation of the market on the 27 Member States have not yet been completed.
With the hasty opening up of the market and, to all intents and purposes, the abolition of the ‘principle of universal service’, it is a foregone conclusion that thousands of jobs will be lost and, at the same time, citizens’ access to cheap, high-quality postal services will be restricted. The consequences will be even more serious for residents of remote and inaccessible mountain or island areas, which will not be profitable to the undertakings.
The postponement of the entry into force of the new directive is only of minor importance, because it simply postpones the negative consequences for two years.
Furthermore, experience to date in the countries in which the market has already been fully liberalised has been anything but positive.
The demand for the liberalisation of postal services ‘because we want to’ is probably creating problems rather than solutions."@en1
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