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"Mr President, Mr Barroso talked earlier on about wanting an ambitious strategy, and it is true that there are parts of the document EU 2020 which are ambitious, but certainly the greenhouse gas emission figure is not ambitious: it is pathetic, and it is not going to get us where we want to go. We should be looking at 40% by 2020. Of course, the issue is not only about climate but also about resource availability and increasing resource efficiency.
There is a lot, as well, that we seem to have seen before in this strategy, not least about economic growth coming through more and more as a goal rather than an indicator. It should not be the goal of a strategy. The EU has many areas where we have tried to decouple growth from transport, energy use, whatever, and it has long been decoupled from jobs. So, can we please not talk as if, somehow, growth is going to deliver jobs?
We also need to be looking not just at reducing poverty but reducing inequalities, because that has known demonstrable benefits, and we need to make sure that our financial institutions do not undermine the ambitious goals that we might put in place."@en1
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