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The Members of the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance abstained from voting on the 2012 budget at first reading on 26 October 2011. We deeply regret the creation of an envelope of EUR 200 000 ‘to fund pilot projects or other support activities aiming to analyse the public acceptance of the exploration for and exploitation of shale gas and introducing a dialogue on this matter’. We cannot accept that a single European cent be used to fund propaganda in favour of shale gas. Furthermore, this first post-Fukushima budget still grants a substantial allocation to the ITER nuclear reactor, which is an extravagant and pointless project, and a dead end in terms of energy and ecology.
For these two reasons at least, we were not able to vote in favour of this draft budget, despite the fact that green pilot projects, an increase in financial assistance for Palestine and substantial savings in administrative costs have been adopted. We have therefore decided to abstain, particularly so as not to weaken Parliament’s position in the difficult negotiations now due to begin with the Council."@en1
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