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"Mr President, it is with great pleasure that I am following the renewed interest in green growth that has followed in the wake of the financial crisis. Yet, like all new political phenomena, the new green wave also requires a dose of healthy scepticism. You could very well get the idea that this is more about creating an alibi for subsidising outdated heavy industry than about actually wanting to conduct a climate-change policy. Indeed, if you were a little cheeky, you could say that it resembles an attempt to re-introduce an old-fashioned protectionist industrial policy, under which the big countries in the EU, whose economies are dependent on the car industry, are to be given permission to grant state aid. I am not that cheeky, however! I therefore welcome the new green line and would like to say that what we need is a truly visionary focus. We should concentrate on switching Europe’s car production over to producing electric cars that can be powered by renewable energy. One fifth of all the CO
emissions in Europe come from the transport sector. If we focus our efforts on this area then we will really be able to do something about CO
emissions and reduce emissions of noise and particulate matter."@en1
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