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"Mr President, we want to put a stop to the noise we have to endure in the vicinity of airports in Europe. Keeping noisy aircraft out is one way to achieve this. We were right to lay down regulations to this end in the past: regulations that are better than those in other parts of the world and that imply a break with the era of the Tupolevs, Concordes and old, noisy aircraft with engine-mufflers.
In the US, the importance of profit still far outstrips that of the people and the environment they live in. One way of making a profit is to carry on flying old, noisy aircraft, or to sell these aircraft on to future Member States of the European Union. In retrospect, we have to admit that Europe sent out the wrong message to the US a year ago. We thought that postponing our own measures would help us to reach rapid agreement on restricting noise levels world-wide. The Americans, on the other hand, thought that we were no longer taking the matter quite as seriously and that we would be satisfied for the time being with less stringent noise level standards.
We have since learnt that there is no prospect of us reaching agreement either rapidly or easily. We can no longer harbour illusions about swiftly reaching an accommodation with the Americans, this year being election year. We may want to avoid a trade war at all costs, but what we are doing is likely to lead to precisely the opposite.
We now have a choice between caving in to the United States or standing by the stringent demands that we drew up earlier on. It is no disgrace if the European Union continues to push for more stringent regulations than the US or the ICAO at international level. It is regrettable that in the run-up to this debate some individuals once again conveyed the impression that reaching agreement with the Americans is more important than environmental protection. I can only hope that any misconceptions arising from this will not stand in the way of us bringing clarity to the situation at tomorrow’s vote. Europe must be prepared to consult with America on joint, stringent environmental standards in the short term, but must not accept delays or give in to short-sightedness."@en1
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