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"en.20090114.17.3-367"2
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"Mr President, the European Union has successfully tackled global warming: adopting a motion was enough to achieve instant success. We managed to lower temperatures in Europe and bring in a winter that has affected the entire continent. This is proof of the European Union’s power and capability according to the principle ‘to want is to succeed’. But our success has turned into defeat, because now we need more heating for our homes and workplaces. This was something officials did not foresee.
In energy policy, the European Union is beginning to resemble the doctor in Hašek’s story, ‘The Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk’, who prescribed one treatment for all illnesses – an enema. The European Union has limited itself to verbal declarations, conferences, and in particular flirting with Russia, giving Russia the courage to use energy resources as an instrument of political pressure. To make matters worse, it found an ally in the form of Germany, with whom it is building a gas pipeline under the Baltic.
The conclusion is clear for all to see: we need to take urgent measures for independence from Russian gas supplies, bearing in mind the maxim of ‘the weakest sink first’, meaning that first we need to rescue the countries bordering and wholly dependent upon gas supplies from the East, such as Poland and the Baltic States, unless the European Union considers private interests and the interests of those representing Russia to be more important."@en1
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