Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-04-24-Speech-4-166"
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"Environmental issues are one of the most important fields for EU cooperation. Cross-border environmental pollution in Europe cannot be tackled at national state level. This gives the EU an obvious role in such areas.
It is, however, very worrying that the report shamelessly uses climate issues as arguments for increasing the political power of the EU and opening the doors to bureaucracy and protectionism. There are many examples, and all of them are wrong. The report demands common taxation, rethinking the notion of free competition and the introduction of so-called border adjustment instruments, in other words duties.
The Member States themselves must be allowed to determine how they deal with environmental policy. It is in competition between countries and companies to find effective solutions to environmental problems that creativity can flourish, not by bureaucratising our existence.
We have therefore voted against the report."@en1
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