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"The rapporteur is right to refer private companies to a separate development company. However, I do not back this proposal, for GALILEO is 15 years overdue. The benefits which a navigation system supported by satellites could have for the government, industry and individual users have long since been stolen from under our noses by the American competition. Only if we intend to close off the European market for American goods and services is it useful to develop a system with Community funding that, within a liberalised global market, is doomed to lose the competitive battle to the American GPS system. This intention does not exist, and it even looks like we are painstakingly trying to avoid trade wars with the US over the import of dangerous goods and pollution by noisy aircraft. European companies are, of course, free to try, off their own bats, to compete with the American product with something that is of superior quality. In doing so, they may be able temporarily to gain a tiny foothold in the market and subsequently do profitable business with the Americans, which will enable them to incorporate European inventions into improvements to the existing system. This does not apply to a large-scale project that has partly been funded with tax money and that can only win or lose. Such a waste of Community funding only serves the interests of industry and the military machine."@en1
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