Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-05-15-Speech-2-218"
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If I understand your question correctly, Mrs Hulthén, you are asking two questions. On the one hand, we have said that we must adopt a raft of horizontal measures within the European Union to make sustainability a kind of common benchmark against which we must measure all of our decisions, whether in the field of agriculture, industry or transport. This is a complex issue because it means going back, apart from anything else, on many decisions we have already taken where sustainability was not taken into account. On the other hand, however, you are also asking me how these rules relate
to globalisation, to the non-European countries. Well then, here we must reiterate our commitment to acting in all international situations and forums but, in many cases, the only thing we can do is lead by example, since we have no weight
with which to impose our decisions. The case of the Kyoto Protocol is extremely significant. We cannot force other countries to take the same line as us, but, with the strength that we do now have when we act in unity, our example will ultimately carry great weight in decisions taken outside the European Union as well."@en1
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