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"Mr President, the policy to liberalise and integrate the internal transport market in the European Union is a highly anti-grassroots policy. Public transport has been sold off to monopoly groups and we have seen mass redundancies, across-the-board application of flexible forms of work, drastic reductions in transport workers’ pay, increasing slavery of workers and a deterioration in safety rules, with a resultant increase in accidents. Ticket and freight prices have shot through the roof, there has been a drastic fall in the standard of transport services and remote continental and island areas have no transport links, with painful consequences on public health and the environment.
The abolition of cabotage and short-haul flights in Greece, alongside the insulting support for transport groups in the form of a State aid package, has resulted in the isolation of remote island areas and huge increases in ticket prices. Now that the Hellenic Railways Organisation has been sold off, entire areas now have no rail link and thousands of workers have been thrown on to the street. Galley conditions apply in air transport.
The conclusion drawn by the workers is that, as long as the criterion is the profitability of the monopolies, it will be impossible to satisfy modern grassroots requirements."@en1
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