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"Mr President, the EU-US partnership is of crucial importance. We are each other’s largest trading partners and by cooperating the EU and the US can play a decisive role in tackling international trade issues. Now that Europe is on its way towards greater unanimity in the foreign and security field too, the necessity of working together will grow even greater. In fields like environmental protection and limiting CO2 emissions cooperation will be decisive.
In the Dutch press, there was an appeal to President Bush in letter form from what the author himself called “the profitable part of American industry” asking the president not to listen only to inefficient companies when environmental decisions were involved. Robust environmental legislation makes companies more innovative, more technology-oriented and more efficient. At yesterday’s Kangaroo Group lunch, Mr Zoellic said that in his view and that of his government not every problem in the private sector needs to be solved by the government. If I combine both things, it may be possible to reach new agreements with the US. Whether an agreement is called Kyoto or New York is a matter of supreme indifference to us. But we must get down to work together.
My final point concerns parliamentary relations. For some years, we have been enjoying better relations. The Legislators Dialogue has gained momentum and has begun to bear fruit. However, since a new Congress has taken office with all the changes in personnel that that involves, it seems difficult to make real contacts. The collective memory on the US side appears to have been erased. We are starting completely from scratch. That is all the more regrettable since our trade disputes could have been effectively prevented by the “early warning” system within the TABD and the Legislators Dialogue.
It is still too early to express real concern. See my observation as part of a European “early warning” system. A light is on, but it is not yet red. But what will happen in a world where the word of a superpower is no longer worth the paper it is written on?"@en1
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