Translation from Dutch: Quotation: Brussels wants Europe’s top speed Uitgeven: 22 februari 2006 13:55 Laatst geijzigd: 22 februari 2006 14:01 BRUSSELS – MEP Barrot (Transport) studies the possibility to introduce European-wide top speeds. The EU countries have to match their high speeds to each other. “I can’t say what speed I want to introduce today,” said the MEP. “It depends on the inward speed. I want to bring together experts from the different EU countries and we can compare the laws. The MEP Barrot thinks to improve traffic safety. This would also mean that there will be speed limits on the German motorway. Nowadays, drivers on the German motorway can decide how fast they drive themselves. The German car companies of fast cars like Porsche and Mercedes Source (Dutch): Well, I don’t think at all about these speed limits. In Holland it is particularly frustrating that you can only drive at 120km/h over the highway, and in the west you can only drive 80km/h, which is monitored by so-called “Trajectcontrolle”, which checks every single vehicle at excessive speed. What is the case very quickly at 80km/h, certainly in the middle of the night when the highway is empty. (D) he Stasi could have seen something of this total surveillance here in Holland).The MEP gives the reason for the safety on Europe’s roads, does someone perhaps have comparative figures of the individual European countries concerning accident deaths? Because I believe the argument “higher speeds require more accident victims, or lower speeds require fewer accident victims”. And as EU critics, I have to say that I have a difficult question where the important facts are They themselves state that a speed limit has to be assessed very differently in the different EU countries, so I am of the opinion that the individual countries should also bear this responsibility themselves, without which the EU fizzles in between. Tempo limits in Germany, the only country where I can regularly step out of car’s, that is simply unprecedentable. Thoughts, anyone?