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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to thank Mrs Handzlik for drafting such an interesting report on the situation of the internal market in the new Member States. I should also like to share with you two thoughts on the report. The average citizen of poorer societies assesses the internal market mainly in terms of the changes in the price of goods and services following accession to the Union. Prices of many basic products and services increased dramatically, and there is no economic justification for this. Mechanisms designed to ensure competitiveness and systems of consumer protection failed. In Socialist times we were supposed to be cheered by the news that the price of locomotives was down even though the price of bread was up. What grounds for optimism are there in the present situation? My second observation concerns the problem of market monopolies. Many concerns have seen their profits double, not because of increased productivity, but also as a result of price policy. There are a great many examples of this, notably fuel. It seems to me that solutions are urgently called for. The Union constitutes a large and attractive market. This should be exploited with a view to regulating …"@en1
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