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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, unfortunately I cannot support Mrs Wortmann-Kool’s report. Despite all her valiant efforts, her work is a series of assumptions which clearly do not support the introduction of the Eurovignette. This is a worrying new tax which the Union is seeking to impose – this time on commercial road transport – in the absurd belief that it will help to re-level the competitive playing field with rail transport, producing those environmental benefits to which we all aspire.
I would also like to take this opportunity to condemn what is happening in the Susa Valley in Italy, where those who should be giving energetic support to rail transport, as they did with the decisions on corridors, are now trying to place obstacles in its path, moreover using somewhat questionable methods.
Basically, I view the Eurovignette as the first obvious direct tax which the European Union wishes to impose and which could open the door to other unacceptable taxes. I shall therefore vote against the proposal."@en1
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