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Good ideas always prevail in the end.

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Mrs. President, dear colleague and colleagues to

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spontaneously go somewhere.

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Meeting friends and family, going

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to the theater for sports, going to school or college, advancing

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in life, achieving goals, exploring the world.

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This is

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freedom.

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And freedom needs mobility.

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It’s our

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mission to make this mobility possible, easy,

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affordable, smart, environmentally and climate-friendly.

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Mrs. President, my dear ladies and gentlemen, someone

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should say that again, Germany can't be fast, especially

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when it comes to large projects.

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The project,

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which they discuss here today, is a mammoth

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project and we prepared it together in

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no time.

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It has not been two months since the idea for Eurotickets

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came into existence.

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Today we are already in the Federal Council.

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Sure, there were and still are discussions, partly

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intense, the days show that too, but in one we have

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always agreed on the direction of the goal, we

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want and need strong public transport.

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ladies and gentlemen, that we have started this mammoth

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project together in such a short time, i.e. federal,

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states and industry.

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I think we can be proud

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of this together.

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The Federation is aware that their

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successful implementation depends on the countries.

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I

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therefore thank you for the efforts you

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have already made in the past weeks.

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And I

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also thank you for the very factual and expertly

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competent discussion about the financing of the erm public

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transport at the last Minister's conference

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with them, Mrs. Mayor erm in Bremen.