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"Mr President, I would like to emphasise that Mechtild Rothe’s report should be greatly commended, above all for the establishment of binding obligations on Member States in the use of renewable energy.
As we know, the present energy market in the European Union is severely distorted. Among other things, this is due to uneven subsidisation and the fact that subsidies for fossil fuels (coal, brown coal, oil shale) and nuclear energy are considerably greater than those for renewable energy. In several Member States, this situation has been brought about by the monopolistic position of those power plants that use fossil fuels. This situation has also been the primary obstacle to the formation of a common energy policy in the European Union.
At the moment, given that our external supply reliability is inadequate as well, one can only hope that the lesson Russia taught Europe at the beginning of the year will offer an additional stimulus to the development of renewable energy in the European Union, and that improving cooperation between the Member States will indeed lead us to a common European energy policy."@en1
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