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"Madam President, I would like to thank Mr Pohjamo for his support, despite the fact that he is calling for more resources. I would also call for more resources, of course, but we must be aware that we are dealing – my colleague Commissioner Schreyer has just discussed this – with specific financial perspectives and we have specific limits.
With regard to the support for renewable energy sources, as the honourable Member is well aware, we are dealing with this jointly with support for energy efficiency by means of the intelligent energy programme.
The honourable Member will think that this is not much money. The truth is that we have approved it on a multi-annual basis and, in the end, we reached agreement with the Council. Once we have agreements, I believe that we must conserve them and maintain them and I would therefore refer back to what we approved and adopted at the time.
With regard to the trans-European networks, I have said very clearly, with a view to the next financial perspectives, that the amount dedicated to trans-European networks must not be increased by 5, 10 or even 15%, but, in my opinion, by 600 or 700%. In other words, it should be multiplied by 7. As simple as that. We need some EUR 4000 million if we are really going to be able to act as the driving force behind the construction of networks of a trans-European nature, and not of a solely national nature.
These trans-European networks of a trans-European nature are necessary in view of the reality of the internal market and for the competitiveness of the European economy as a whole, and I can therefore only agree with the honourable Member but, I would insist, this cannot be done by modifying budgets, but by reviewing the new financial perspectives, given the great importance of the issue.
With regard to the transport networks, in relation to the energy sector, I have already presented specific projects for Euro-Mediterranean energy networks, which must allow, firstly, for the rationalisation of investments made in a series of countries and greater coordination and efficiency in investments, thereby achieving not just purely national benefits from certain investments, but providing a broader continental-type perspective.
When I talk about these Euro-Mediterranean energy networks, I am talking about Europe as a continent, not the European Union. These networks also take account of neighbouring countries such as Russia, Belarus or the Ukraine. In other words, the whole ring of friends included by President Prodi in his strategy.
Secondly, in the transport sector we are working on it, and I hope that in the near future we will be able to make it a reality. Specifically, I was in St Petersburg a week ago discussing these very networks, and in this case they were even Euro-Asian, because we should be seeking systems to better integrate, in a continental sense, the European Union with our neighbours.
I would like to thank Parliament once again for supporting the proposals we have presented."@en1
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