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"I am indeed leaving for Moscow, where the Summit is due to start tomorrow evening. One of the fundamental points concerns, in particular – I have to admit, thanks to the responsible, constructive insistence by Finland and the Nordic countries – precisely the environmental problems of the Gulf of Finland. It is in this context that the EIB was authorised – as I said earlier – to give loans, but solely and exclusively for environmental matters. An exception has therefore been made precisely because we consider the situation to be extreme.
Tomorrow, we will also tackle the wider issue of energy, in view of the energy leaks, spillover, wastage and similar factors in our energy cooperation policy, in the context of which we have, in recent months, already held a large number of technical meetings which have brought great progress.
Lastly – and this is the chapter which concerns me most – there is the whole of the great nuclear waste issue, which we discussed at the last meeting. I am talking about underwater waste but also waste from industrial plant and power stations. We are working very actively on this, but the economic scale of the issue is enormous and the cost can certainly not be borne by the European Union alone. I hope that it will be possible to build a common relationship in order to deal with an issue that is assuming truly huge dimensions in economic terms but which, at the same time, demands incisive action."@en1
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