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"The Wijkman report has the great merit of demonstrating the key role played by energy in development, and of giving us some sobering figures that reveal the size of the problem. From the two billion human beings who do not currently have access to an energy service capable of responding to their basic needs, to the forecasts of the growth in world energy demand by the year 2020 (an increase of 65% compared with 1995), the accent is judiciously placed on the vicious circles of under-development on which it is now absolutely essential to take action in the interests of the planet as a whole.
Although, like the rapporteur, we can welcome the Commission’s initiatives, we would hasten to add that, when mentioning their lack of ambition, emphasis could – and indeed should – have been placed on the lack of any research effort as regards nuclear energy, because serious forecast studies clearly show – and the rapporteur, in spite of himself, also contributes to this conclusion – that we will not be capable of meeting the future energy needs of the planet if we turn our backs on the only technology that is capable of effectively taking over from fossil energy sources, which are often, as the report emphasises, the source of covetousness and of extremely serious conflicts.
My group will vote in favour of this report, hoping that it will contribute towards this salutary realisation."@en1
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