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"Mr President, I wish to congratulate everyone, but I would have liked to have seen a more ambitious result. Much more ambitious. And why? I will give you five reasons: more innovation, greater competitiveness for Europe, the environment, obviously, because this could have saved us raw materials, and it would have been cheaper for the consumer, too.
We in Europe are very dependent on imports of raw materials for energy. With cleaner technology, we would have made many more savings and we would also have given an enormous impetus to our strong automotive industry to come up with clean, intelligent technology which could be sold anywhere in the rest of the world and which could have given us a headstart.
This would have been cheaper and more efficient, precisely because we are so dependent on imports. It would also have translated into savings for the consumer. The purchase price might have been higher, but it would ultimately have worked out cheaper per kilometre. That would have been very much of interest to small and medium-sized enterprises, in particular. For the Dutch, the saying ‘Look after the cents and the euros will look after themselves’ is still very interesting!"@en1
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