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"Mr President, what the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety has come up with is a feeble compromise, nothing more or less than an invitation to inaction, and if it is accepted, Europe’s clean air policy risks becoming a laughing stock.
Many municipalities have already put in place ambitious policy measures for clean air, including such things as modernisation of their car fleets, environmental zones and so on, and so there should be no rewards for inactivity, yet that is precisely what the Committee on the Environment’s feeble compromise, with its extended deadline, would offer to them and to all those who have failed to do their homework.
Just what do we think European law is for if we reward those who do nothing? We have been talking about the more stringent standard for PM2.5. We know that 20 gets us nowhere, and nor does 25, so why not vote for the Greens’ ambitious proposal of 12? I hope that we manage, tomorrow, to save European clean air policy from being thrown away, for it would be a source of shame if Europe were to cast aside its leadership role and risk denying industry – the motor industry in particular – a future.
Air pollution kills over 350 000 people in Europe, 65 000 of them in Germany, and so it would be a good thing if we were to do more than just give out hot air."@en1
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