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"Mr President, Commissioner, President-in-Office of the Council, ladies and gentlemen, since the Rio Earth Summit of 1992, the concept of sustainable development has become integrated, a little more each day, into the habits of the people inhabiting this planet, including those of our European citizens.
I should like to say how much I agree with Mr Kraszewski and with Mr Bennahmias. Yes, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) must be strengthened by a UN agency, or a World Environment Organisation should even be created with real powers to act. In the interim, I welcome the ambition of the European Union, driven by this Parliament, to play a leadership role in future discussions, including those scheduled for June 2012 in Rio.
I therefore endorse the broad thrust of the resolution drawn up by the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, and I would like to thank Mr Florenz for his forbearance.
However, one point in particular concerns me. As you know, Article 194 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union states quite clearly that the choice of energy mix is a national and purely a national matter. There are some Members of Parliament who, apparently, attach no value to the Treaty and would like the European Union to ask, suddenly, the entire world to abandon nuclear power, knowing that some countries in the European Union are producers, and other countries are large consumers, of nuclear energy.
We will only be credible if our prospects are realistic. If Parliament embarks on this path and prepares to send this type of message to the entire world, I will not, unfortunately, be able to vote in favour of the resolution that will be put to the vote tomorrow.
Commissioner, sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Nuclear energy contributes directly to sustainable development, as it is one of the sources of energy that emit the lowest amount of CO
. It is therefore clear to me that the response to Fukushima must be to ensure an optimal level of nuclear safety and to promote that requirement at international level. What we need are higher safety standards which are better controlled and implemented in a fully transparent manner."@en1
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