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"I voted against the Simon report. It is, admittedly, a step in the right direction, which is that of relaxing the rules restricting public support for services of general economic interest (SGEI). However, it is not based on sound premises. The petty distinctions between services of general interest, social services of general interest, and services of general economic interest, can simply be put down to hair-splitting by the Commission to deny the very principle of public service and the absolute right of States, recognised by the Treaties, to define public services, to organise them, and to decide how such services are to be funded. It also serves, in network activities, to cream off the markets to the benefit of the private sector, to break national monopolies only to replace them with private oligopolies, to nationalise losses and to leave it to public authorities, meaning the taxpayer, to construct and maintain the networks. There are two possibilities: either the service is a public service, whether economic or otherwise, or it falls within traditional economic activity. In the first case, it is not subject to the vague and fluctuating shifts in the ultraliberal policies of the European Union. However, it must be totally excluded from the scope of competition rules and the rules governing public subsidies."@en1
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