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". This report that has been adopted is unfortunately entirely in line with the Commission's proposal, spelling out what it means by the ‘European energy strategy’, namely liberalisation, control over sources of supply and threatening people’s sovereignty. Working on the premise that the ‘market’ will solve the problem of energy supply and consumption, the report seeks to hide the increasingly obvious fact that the ‘market' has worked in the interests of the few, who have obtained fabulous profits, and not in the interests of the consumers, who face ever higher energy bills and ever more frequent blackouts. The ‘market' is put forward as a solution to the lack of a genuine policy aimed at overcoming energy dependency on fossil fuels and excessive energy consumption. We also find it unacceptable that the solution to issues of pollution is a system of emissions trading, given that this does not help reduce ‘greenhouse gases’. All it does is boost the profits of those in a position to earn them, thereby exacerbating inequality as regards development. Furthermore, the path of a common external energy policy is a fresh threat to the sovereignty of those Member States that are most dependent, …"@en1
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