Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-09-04-Speech-2-226"
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"Mr President, I am disturbed by the suggestion that the process of establishing open skies be accelerated. There seems to be no recognition of the problems that open skies have visited on regional airports in Europe, even in their preparatory stage. In creating a single European sky we will see the emergence of two major hubs – Heathrow, definitely, and either Frankfurt or Charles de Gaulle – flanked by a network of sub-hubs.
The competition among airports to be the first or second level in the open skies hierarchy is proving cut-throat in my country. Shannon Airport – a hub in its own right – and regional airports like Cork are being starved of routes, while Dublin Airport is chronically overcrowded. My government stands by and does nothing because the logic of open skies is to let the market decide, and the market, not social responsibility or common sense around regional and rural development, is deciding in a way that increases profits but does not serve people.
Rather than rush open skies, let us, even at this late hour, take whatever time is necessary to do serious assessment on the impact of the policy. Then let us take whatever measures are needed to ensure that whole areas of Europe, like the west and south of Ireland, are not cut off from a viable, economic future by open skies."@en1
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