Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-10-22-Speech-1-056"
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"en.20011022.4.1-056"2
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"I wish to deal briefly with two issues: one I have already addressed, that is the state of the airline industry in Europe. I welcome the fact that the Commissioner has announced that the European Union is going to meet with the US authorities to discuss unfair competition, but that is a grossly inadequate response to the current crisis in the aviation industry. I would like some clarity about what precisely the Commission is doing. There is a report in Irish newspapers today that the Commission is insisting that the rescue and aid package the Irish government will provide for Aer Lingus must be privately funded. Now, that is a gross distortion of the treaties which are neutral as regards where aid or money should come from to assist the aviation industry. I want clarity on this. Is that what the Commission is demanding or is the Irish government playing its own privatisation game under cover of the present crisis?
The second point I wish to make is in relation to the nuclear and chemical industries in Europe. The report which is coming before STOA this week makes for worrying reading. It will hopefully be made public very soon, but the reality is that Sellafield and Cap de la Hague were a risk even before 11 September 2001; the chemical plants in our midst were a risk even before Toulouse. It seems to me that we need commitments from the Commission that we are going to have an independent European inspectorate."@en1
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