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"Madam President, Commissioner, it is a shame that Parliament has a right to nothing more than consultation when what we are talking about is the future of 180 000 European families and the European Union’s indigenous energy source
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Subsidies are not a general route to competitiveness, but making European coal competitive through subsidies is strategically necessary, first of all, because 60% of European energy is imported, and out of the remaining 40%, a large proportion is nuclear – which the majority of this House does not support – and secondly, because of price increases: the European coal price is moving closer and closer to the international coal price.
Moreover, I would like to ask you: what is competitive coal? Ask yourselves whether all the coal that the European Union imports includes the social and safety costs of the mines that are included in the cost of European coal. Is this the model that many of you want for Europe? Do you agree with the importation of products from outside our continent that do not comply with the principles of Union preference and do not incorporate social rights? Do you reject this same idea for European coal?
The longer this period is, the better, so that we can introduce the clean combustion and storage technologies that already exist in the European Union. Without European coal, if we cause European mines to close, there will be no incentive to continue reducing emissions from thermal power stations, which will continue to burn imported coal and to produce CO
. What do you prefer: do you want CO
to come to us from outside the European Union or do you want it to be possible for CO
to be treated and stored using our own European technology?
I do not believe that rejecting the possibility of EU coal, as you are doing, is liberalism: I believe it is hypocrisy."@en1
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