Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-06-14-Speech-3-203"
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"Mr President, the Lisbon Strategy’s objectives are mistaken. We now have growth without jobs, so it is the wrong way to obtain more employment. We are also aiming at the wrong goals. With people now earning approximately EUR 12 000 per year, the link between increased income and greater happiness is ever more tenuous. Instead, the result is increased stress, more environmental damage, wider social disparities and more injustice. Sustainable development is not only about the environment. Achieving it involves, rather, seeing the environment as being inseparably linked to social conditions.
Today, everyone is talking about sustainable development, and tomorrow we are to vote on the Seventh Framework Programme that allocates EUR 4 billion to research into nuclear power. More money is also going to research into carbon-based energy and to research into other non-sustainable forms of energy. Why is that the case? The UN Climate Panel has shown that we can only achieve the Kyoto objectives by halting the subsidies to fossil fuels. People listening to us are amazed. Why do we not take the relevant decisions? It is because the lobbyists from the big companies obtain their cherished short-term growth solutions, which are inimical to sustainable development. We must listen more to our audience and less to our lobbyists. Then, we shall obtain sustainable development."@en1
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