Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-07-03-Speech-1-143"
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"en.20060703.18.1-143"2
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"I would like to remind the author of the report that the European Parliament is often called the flying parliament. Flying as we do every week to one of the EU's capitals, we should be particularly concerned about making aviation a more environmentally friendly mode of transport. In policies concerning the effect of aviation on climate change, the ‘polluter pays’ principle must be upheld. It is regrettable that air transport does not cover the external expenditure which arises as a result of its effect on the climate. The logical thing would be to include aviation in the EU's trading system for greenhouse gas emission allowances. The funds raised by the collection of such taxes could be invested in new technology dedicated to the production of ‘cleaner’ aircraft. The expansion of rail and bus transport could reduce both the pressure on overloaded airports and the pollution emitted by aviation. Unfortunately, the rail and road networks in Lithuania and the other Baltic countries are not integrated into the EU's infrastructure. They are outmoded and overloaded. If the ‘Via Baltica’ and more importantly the ‘Rail Baltica’ projects fail to receive special EU attention, it will be a long time before rail and road transport in this region are able to help aviation."@en1
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