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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, approximately one year ago, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the future of tourism in Europe, for which I was rapporteur, on behalf of the Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism. This resolution expressly proposed that the tourism sector should have a solid legal base in the future European Constitution in order to allow the Commission to react effectively to the various problems that might arise.
Since this is one of the largest sectors of activity in Europe, which is the top tourist region in the world, and since it is one of the sectors with the brightest future in terms of jobs and wealth creation, it is hard to understand the lack of political recognition and means for intervention provided in the current Treaties.
Since the growing trend in our manufacturing industry is to relocate outside Europe, tourism emerges as a labour-intensive activity involving a multitude of services that cannot be relocated, which Europe has now and on which it can continue to count in future. Because of its cross-border definition, however, should this activity remain outside the scope of the European institutions? Can Europe refuse to intervene in a sector that is one of the most promising for its future development? Can the European Union remain unprepared to confront and respond to the needs of the industries involved in this activity, simply because there is no legal base that would enable it to intervene effectively? This is the situation we must now address.
In fact, the provisions of the new Constitution presented by the Praesidium do not contain a single reference to tourism. There is not even a proposal to maintain what has been achieved in the Treaties currently in force. We in the European Parliament maintain our position of wanting tourism to be referred to expressly as a sector of competences shared between the European Union and the Member States, being referred to specifically in the first part of the Constitution and in the part concerning the policies of the future European Constitution. Our question is this: what is the Commission doing to achieve this? I therefore ask the Commission what its proposals are for strengthening the legal base of tourism in the future European Constitution."@en1
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