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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, what Mrs Doyle said gives great cause for concern in terms of both procedure and the subject matter, and it is this latter aspect which I would like to consider for a moment. We are in a situation where agreements on the environment are never observed: the most striking example is the Kyoto Agreement. I hope that the Commission will reflect on its future approach to cooperation with Members of Parliament – including outside the European Union – but above all, with regard to the subject matter, I hope that it will work much harder to preserve the conditions necessary for the survival not just of the European Union and its almost 400 million inhabitants – which soon will exceed 400 million – but of the whole planet.
While I am anything but anti-American, I nevertheless feel that great pressure needs to be exerted on President Bush’s administration so that issues such as the climate, climate change and the environment are given more attention and not just addressed from a financial perspective and with a narrow rather than a far-sighted monetary approach.
We should work much harder in this respect, and I trust the Commission will do so."@en1
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