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Madam President, Commissioner, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, not all of you heard the Council Presidency’s impressive speech on climate change, but, just as I have, you will have heard many of its kind, and, since Mr Gabriel, my old friend from our days together in provincial politics, is given to plain speaking, I would just like to say that, if it were possible for words to halt climate change in its tracks, the problem would probably be gone by now, but I have to tell both Mr Gabriel and the Commissioner that this situation has to be assessed in terms of what is being done about it rather than of what is being said about it.
The Commission proposal accompanying the energy package is problematic, and not only because of the 20% target and the juggling around with the initial unilateral 20% followed perhaps by 30% at the international level later; another reason why it is problematic is that the instruments to be included in this energy package are all too weak, and I have my doubts about whether they are at all capable of achieving a 20% reduction in CO2.
Mr Gabriel, this is a package with a lot wrong with it and little right with it. For example, there is too little in it about energy efficiency and energy-saving, not enough about renewable energies, too much about coal and fossil fuels, and the optimistic attitude in it towards nuclear power is indefensible nowadays, particularly when one considers the economic disaster that Areva is inflicting on Finland, the news of which must surely make every opponent of nuclear power rejoice that the nuclear industry is ruining itself through this sort of misinvestment.
Quite apart from the rights and wrongs of this, there has, as I see it, also been something over the past few days that has outdone these false instruments, something for which the German Presidency of the Council is responsible. Commissioner Dimas tried – and rightly – to lay down binding targets for CO2 reduction, and at a level that the motor industry had voluntarily announced, only to see this proper attempt torpedoed by Germany, and not with the thought in its mind of doing something about climate change or the future of the motor industry, but simply and solely with the thought of protecting that small subdivision of it – the one concerned with the production of big luxury cars, a business that goes on in Germany, and so, suddenly, they care less about climate change and only about Porsche!"@en1
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