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"The EU brags about its leading role in environmental protection, but in reality it seeks a leading role in protecting the interests of capital. The decisions by the summit and the package of Council and Commission directives on reducing emissions promote the so-called green economy as a way out of the over-accumulation of capital and the crisis, thereby opening up new prospects of profits for the monopolies and strengthening imperialist expansionism.
They strengthen the trade in emissions, which has proven to multiply monopoly profits without protecting the environment. They allow the automotive industry to not take measures until at least 2019. They exempt undertakings affected by international competition from regulations on energy generation and much more besides. They also exempt the new Member States and Italy for a long period of time. They provide incentives to replace food crops with fuel crops. Pollution rights are being granted to large undertakings free of charge. Any revenue is not required to finance environmental works.
Workers cannot wait for environmental protection from the EU and from the undertakings polluting the environment with impunity. Only their fight, within the prospect of a grassroots economy and grassroots power, can effectively protect them."@en1
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