Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-07-04-Speech-3-415-125"
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"Access to basic banking services has now become vital for every citizen and it must therefore be guaranteed that this principle is respected. The adopted report calls for European citizens to be given the opportunity to be able to use, free of charge or at a reasonable cost, facilities such as access to a basic current account and standard payment services. It is right for banks to make this service available to the broadest segment of the population, but the fees associated with managing a current account, which are often very substantial, cannot be permitted. However, there must also be the necessary guarantees and that is why I thought it was rash, and perhaps an exercise in propaganda, to want to extend this possibility to those with no fixed address: it is not the case that we want to deny those citizens this opportunity, but there are objective difficulties, chiefly the traceability of the account holder, which may also lead to a widespread lack of transparency. Despite this last point, I nonetheless voted in favour of the text in question, as I believe that we should extend the use of these services to as many citizens as possible."@en1
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