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"Mr President, when I was elected to the European Parliament more than seven years ago, I thought that I knew something about energy and the overall issue surrounding energy, that I knew my way around it, and that, in principle, I also understood it. After my first period in Brussels, I realised that I knew almost nothing. Now in my second period of work in Parliament, I increasingly feel that I have perhaps ceased to understand it. Why is that? The reason is that I am always hearing the pervasive mantra that liberalisation should bring cheaper energy for consumers. I must say, however, that this has never happened in seven whole years. If it has, show me the evidence. Meanwhile, under the key slogan of more stable, more reliable and cheaper energy supplies, we are adopting more and more regulations. In the end, the overall globalisation and liberalisation of the market does not ensure more reliable and cheaper energy. In the final analysis, it is always the consumer who shoulders the main costs, unlike the big players on the market, who definitely cannot complain about their profits.
The document submitted is relatively specialised and complex and I cannot rid myself of the feeling that it is, above all, the big players on the European energy market and therefore also the large Member States that best know their way around it and that have influenced it. It is nonetheless also true that the report brings elements of greater transparency, as already mentioned here. This is also thanks to the work of the rapporteur, which I would like to applaud heartily, as it has been an extremely demanding task. It is also true that the energy markets are of a cross-border nature, and clear rules are therefore essential.
In the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, we contributed a number of amendments strengthening the focus on the prevention of abuse and manipulation on the wholesale energy market. Despite all that, however, much remains to be done in this area, perhaps not least because there is still no linked-up pan-European energy market, and we are unable – or scarcely able – to respond flexibly and effectively to a crisis."@en1
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