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"Mr President, what is at stake in this debate is whether the EU's commitment to sustainable development in theory, actually means something in practice, whether when push comes to shove, we are prepared to make some very difficult decisions.
Sustainable development is supposed to be about integrating economic development with environmental concerns. That is what the EU has signed up to in countless treaties from the Rio Earth Summit onwards. That is what Article 6 of our own EC Treaty obliges us to do – to integrate those policies.
At the heart of this debate is the issue of economic development coming right up against environmental constraints. We are going to be increasingly faced with hard decisions on this. It will be a very good test of what our commitment to sustainable development really means. At a recent plenary session, we talked a lot about coherence in EU policies. Members from all over this House were rightly emphasising how important policy coherence is, yet here we have an outstanding example of policy incoherence. That is why the Greens are supporting very strongly this resolution from the Environment Committee."@en1
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