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"Mr President, Madam President-in-Office, Commissioner, transatlantic relations seem to have drifted into quite a difficult situation. In my opinion, we could even speak of a sort of crisis. I welcomed Mrs Lindh’s suggestion that we can also express criticism when there is cause to do so. We can undoubtedly learn from the United States some other time, when there is occasion to do so, so this is not a question of anti-Americanism, but one of factual discussion.
It would seem to me that what unites the European Union and the United States above all is the fact that together we are responsible, to a considerable extent, for global development, as together we make up the world’s largest trading blocs. I believe that in future, transatlantic relations should ensure that solutions to problems that are caused by the social inequality in the world are evolved and that together we seek the right tools to promote sustainable development.
In this regard the Council and the Commission are also to be praised for the fact that during the Stockholm Summit Prime Minister Persson and President of the Commission, Mr Prodi, sent a letter to the President of the United States that emphasised the importance of the Kyoto Protocol and stated in particular that its policy on climate is an essential ingredient in our understanding of transatlantic relations, and no minor issue. This is my free interpretation of the matter at least.
The Commissioner’s excellent comparison with a super-tanker is something I would like to take up on more or less the same lines. I might imagine that this tanker of ours ought to have the world’s best environmentally friendly technology, and, as Mr Cox said, it should at least have a double bottom, its engine should be very powerful and its fuel as clean as possible – preferably solar energy, if possible, Commissioner.
I would also like to say that if the United States wishes to become the world’s last open-air museum of old technology – and I stress the word ‘old’- as it is refusing to start developing climate-friendly solutions, something we cannot do anything about, the European Union must, despite that, become the world’s leading region in this regard, and we can nevertheless invite the United States to join us in implementing this climate policy, which is one that also makes for good business.
I would finally like to say a few words about security policy. My group is very concerned that in the United States there is an intention to use global resources for a missile defence system. We think that is likely to increase the threat to peace worldwide and that the European Union should have no part in it. Instead, try and convince the USA that security in the world is to be furthered by means of solutions based on the worldwide promotion of socially and ecologically sustainable development."@en1
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