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The Cat is out of the Bag – SESAR is nothing more than a plan to use the market to reduce costs
The game is up. The true market driven aims of SESAR have been discovered by Miguel Viegas, a Member of the European Parliament. Miguel’s National Party is the Partido Comunista Português, and he is a member of the Confederal Group of the European United Left – Nordic Green Left.
Miguel, in a written question to the running dog lackeys of the Imperial ruling class capitalists over there in the European Commission has told them straight “It has been feared from the start that [The Single European Sky initiative] may be too strongly geared to reducing costs and too closely directed towards the market, with the aim of handing a series of activities that have until now been the responsibility of national governments to private companies.”
Miguel is seeking an explanation from the Commission of how this has come to pass, and why SESER is not a “100% public joint venture”. Anything less than that is simply not acceptable. The Commissariat risks several years of re-education camp if they do not get it right. Soon.
Of particular concern to him seems to be that a (whisper this) Spanish company – Indra has joined the SESAR Joint Undertaking as a full member and is now part of this spiteful Public-Private partnership.
The alternative view, that perhaps the current system is not a perfect model of efficiency and well-being maximisation, gets no truck from our Miguel. Better to have the most expensive ATM in the world, inefficiently delivered, than the risk of customer focused, efficient innovative ATM.
The existing system delivers ATM like it is 1955 – VHF radio and radar included – but at least each controller has a chicken in every pot.
We shall watch the response of Commissioner Bul? with great interest.
