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"Mr President, Mrs Doyle, to answer your first question, we are going to try to go as far as possible. We are going to try to get an agreement at first reading. We are going to do everything in our power to achieve that; if we can get an early agreement at second reading, we will do so. I think that it is in the interest of all the European institutions and the Union as a whole. To be clear, that is my personal opinion, even though I know that it is going to be very difficult.
As regards the mechanisms for dealing with carbon leakage, I think that it is important – and I am speaking here on behalf of the Presidency, not the Council – that on the one hand we can work together from a technical point of view on these measures, which are far from simple, and that on the other hand we have a bargaining chip that we can use in the forthcoming international negotiations. If no agreement is reached on this aspect at a global level, then, as you quite rightly said, we will have to move on to Plan B. However, we will be in a better position to come up with Plan B if we have proposals to bring to the table at the international negotiations and we have them early enough. That is my belief."@en1
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