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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I do not believe that we have been particularly successful in explaining the real meaning that must be attached to this whole package. Many people believe that we wish to punish industrial policy. What this really relates to, however, is CO
policy and sustainability policy in this world. We need resources for this! It may be painful, but if we do not have these resources, we cannot deal with the great carbon sinks of this world, and they do exist and cannot be explained away. For this purpose, we have mechanisms, about which I am not very happy either, just as little as I am happy with the outcome. However, I shall nevertheless vote in favour.
Carbon leakage is an entry point to a kind of liberation. This is still far from meaning that industry, which we believe will be freed, is really going to be freed by the Commission. The same goes for the benchmarking system. Minister, with all due respect and to you too, Mrs Doyle, we must be immensely careful lest in the future our Commission become the lord and master of economic policy in Europe. That should never lie with one institution alone! That is why I have my doubts, but will in the end nevertheless vote for the report, since in retrospect this concerns not only CO
but also sustainability. We are burning away our children’s resources at an appalling rate, and thereby endangering our planet. This must be turned around by a new policy for the industrial society. That is our one chance!
When we complain that Parliament could not bring enough competence to this question, that is quite correct. However, my dear Social Democrat friends, in the Conference of Presidents you voted by a majority for this haste, when we voted against. We wanted a different procedure, one which the Council could certainly have coped with. When you complain, therefore, complain to the right place.
In conclusion, I cannot imagine that there exists a wiser proposal that could find a suitable majority. That is why we must vote in favour."@en1
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