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"Mr President, preventing offshoring is one of our main policy objectives. That is why we are launching a series of initiatives for growth – to try to make sure our businesses do not move jobs abroad but can explore new markets, including for manufacture, and still expect a financial return. Furthermore, I think that, because of the way things are, we have already set some important ambitious targets.
Our entire industrial policy – the third industrial revolution that we are fighting for – is and should be the lead player in the fight against climate change. It is no accident that Jeremy Rifkin has been one of the key players in the event with which we launched this strategy for reindustrialising Europe. The ambitious targets we have to meet are a 20 % reduction in CO
emissions, with all the initiatives we can muster, and the Commission communication on the reindustrialisation of Europe talks about sustainable construction, clean vehicles and the green economy.
But it is clearly the case that the targets set have to be achievable targets. If we ask industry, at a time when there is a global agreement in place on reducing CO
emissions, to meet targets that are impossible to meet, the risk is that these industries will start offshoring, making the climate change situation even worse. Forcing our businesses to locate outside the EU would effectively mean encouraging them not to obey our rules, because they would be manufacturing in parts of the world without strict rules on CO
emissions, and this would amount to a very bad environment policy.
Asking for achievable targets therefore seems to me to be the best way of balancing a good, modern industrial policy, one that is different from industrial policy in the past, with the commitment to responsible, achievable targets in the fight against climate change in which we are all engaged."@en1
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