Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-10-09-Speech-4-077"
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"en.20031009.2.4-077"2
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"By envisaging the space industry only in terms of struggle in a competitive market, basically with the United States, this report has an entire symbolic dimension to it. It obviously wants increased access to public funds, that is to say to taxpayers’ money, in order to help European businesses retain, or acquire shares in, this market. In the interests, moreover, of still greater efficiency, it recommends orders in the military sector, something that, in addition, would enable manufacturers to benefit from the knowledge already acquired in this area and would move in the direction of establishing a European military force independent of that of the United States – a military force which some people consider vital to conducting operations that they refer to as ‘peacekeeping’, but which are nothing other than operations for defending the interests of European manufacturers and financiers.
By its clarity, such a report is like a confession: the aims of the European institutions are none other than to mobilise knowledge and public funds in the interests of European private capital, in the space sector as elsewhere. We can obviously only vote against a report so obviously marked by these preoccupations alone."@en1
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