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lpv:speaker	lp:Martin Callanan2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I hope that Mr Eickhout’s disappointment at the legislation we are discussing this evening is mitigated by a famous victory for the Netherlands, using perhaps the best available football techniques in their game this evening. Sadly, England could not be there, but never mind; we cannot have everything. Moving to the subject of the debate, I would first of all like to pay tribute to the work that Holger Krahmer did. It was a very long, complicated piece of legislation and he genuinely worked to involve all of the political groups and all of the different shades of opinion in this debate. We have reached, in the end, what is an acceptable compromise. Nobody got what they wanted – perhaps that is the mark of good European legislation but it is a bit of a messy fudge – and nobody is happy. Member States are not particularly happy. Certainly some Members of this House are very unhappy. I hope Mr Eickhout’s unhappiness is mitigated later but, nevertheless, it is a good overall result. The compromises reached are, in my view, a good balance between, on the one hand, protecting the environment but, on the other, taking into account some of the quite legitimate concerns held by some Member States that forcing a lot of coal plants to close early would actually be a bad thing for the environment – what would the power be replaced by? We have our long-term emissions legislation and directives to meet, which would be compromised by forcing too many plants to close early, and, at the end of the day, all the improvements we want to see have to be paid for by somebody. At the end of the day, that is always the consumer. We have a recession across Europe and we must be careful to get the balance right between environmental protection and costly improvements."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Martin Callanan,"1 "on behalf of the ECR Group."1
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