Neelie Kroes Quotes

• A coder will be the next rock star.

  Neelie Kroes

  Stars, Rocks, Coders

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• I can only encourage everyone to take a close look at their practices. Prevention is always better than cure.

  Neelie Kroes

  Practice, Looks, Prevention

  "Britons face £3bn jump in gas bills" by Mark Milner, Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2006.

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• We now live in an amazing digital world, and television is firmly part of that brave new world. Television is still the way to reach the most citizens and talk to them – and with them - about how the EU affects their lives. It's still the way to bring people together – to laugh, to debate, to learn. In a world that takes a faster and faster pace, it is nice to know you can slow down once in a while with a good TV programme.

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  Nice, Brave New World, People

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• Highly complementary airline alliances and mergers can bring important benefits to passengers by connecting networks, offering new services and generating efficiencies across the aviation value chain. However, this has to take place within a competitive environment. It is vital that the economic benefits of an airline alliance or merger are passed on to passengers.

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  Offering, Important, Alliances

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• I am determined to use competition law to protect European industry and consumers.

  Neelie Kroes

  Law, Competition, Use

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• You can take this as a gentle word of warning, if you like. We are just at the beginning of a period of more intensive antitrust enforcement.

  Neelie Kroes

  Enforcement, Warning, Periods

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• The E.U.-U.S. Open Aviation Area agreement therefore envisages the establishment of a broadly similar cooperation framework between the Commission and the Department of Transportation.

  Neelie Kroes

  Agreement, Cooperation, Aviation

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• I know a smart business decision when I see one - choosing open standards is | a very smart business decision indeed.

  Neelie Kroes

  Smart, Decision, Standards

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• It is not acceptable for customers in one member state to pay the price for a company to become a bigger player in other member states. The ruling shows that in these cases it is essential that companies propose adequate remedies in order to guarantee sufficient competition from other firms.

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  Player, Pay The Price, Order

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• Even though effective competition is the best tool to strengthen innovation and competitiveness in Europe, state aid can also play a very useful supporting role.

  Neelie Kroes

  Europe, Play, Competition

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• Consolidation in the skiing equipment industry cannot be allowed to lead to higher prices, lower quality or less innovative products.

  Neelie Kroes

  Quality, Skiing, Equipment

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• Deployment of broadband may be hampered by market failures in rural and remote areas. In such cases, well targeted state aid may therefore be appropriate.

  Neelie Kroes

  Deployment, May, Aids

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• Absolutely determined to ensure that Microsoft complies fully with the 2004 anti-trust decision.

  Neelie Kroes

  Decision, Microsoft, Determined

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