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"‘If conditions are right’ was the way I put it to Mr Florenz. I think that what is now very important is for the Member States of the European Union to reflect back on the very thorough communication that we sent out in May. I, of course, was very happy to see that the French, German and British Ministers of the Environment so clearly spoke out in the middle of July, and I only hope that other Member States will do the same.
I think they showed, in the way they argued, that this is not just a question of international negotiations; it is also about what actually serves Europeans’ interests properly. That is what we are going to continue to discuss –including with the Belgians under the Belgian Presidency – and, of course, it is also very significant what kind of message comes to us from the European Parliament. So you also have quite an influence there.
I must say to Mr Perello Rodriguez that I very much agree with the necessity of speaking with one voice. As I have said before, that does not mean that only one voice can be that voice. What is important is that, whenever other parties in the world listen to what European representatives tell them, they can be more or less sure that it is the same kind of message coming out, the same line that we are advocating.
That is what is important, and that is what we are working to secure with the Belgian Presidency, including in the way that we formulate the mandates, because we cannot continue to signal to the whole world where our red lines are. If we do not want them to know exactly where all our red lines are, we must make some more flexible mandates, and then we must have confidence in one another and be sure that we then have some leverage to negotiate. I think that is also crucial for the way we will come out of Cancún."@en1
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