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"Madam President, first I would like to thank the President-in-Office of the Council for what I see as the proper line of reasoning: the interests of the environment should be given high priority in both good and bad times. Your answers to Mr Wurtz, Mr Cohn-Bendit and Mr Schultz were likewise pertinent.
I wish to express my concern in particular about the fate of emissions trading. When you consider what has been done in this House this autumn, Parliament’s position cannot be regarded as the outcome of a democratic process. It smacks of undue haste, and the committees did not know what they were voting on. The amendments that have been tabled are a kind of bluff and we have been manipulated and misled. Our rapporteur and our group coordinator betrayed everyone by not going with decision the group voted on. Parliament has never seen anything like it before.
The Commission is one guilty party. It delivered a huge package of legislation too late and then warned against touching it in the name of international harmony with regard to the climate issue. The result is a poor model for emissions trading, which, if realised, will push up costs and threaten European jobs. Any auction applied unilaterally is just an extra tax burden. I cannot see any benefit to the environment if European products, the world’s most cleanly manufactured, should acquire this burden in the name of the fight against climate change.
An auction simply takes pollution away from Europe, dumps it somewhere else, and brings us unemployment. It is neither a good nor a responsible environmental policy. We need a more effective climate policy.
Emissions have to be cut according to the commitments we have made. Our alternative also deserves to be properly considered in Parliament. Many of the Member States are in favour of it, as are the Confederation of European Industries and the entire European trade union movement. Another reading would eliminate the democratic deficit that has now been established in the House."@en1
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