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"Mr President, Ms Damanaki, ladies and gentlemen, we in the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance in this House have two reasons for voting against additional funding for the ITER nuclear fusion reactor. In our view, it is a high-risk technology, because radioactive tritium is needed to provide the heat for the fusion process. Particularly in the year following the Fukushima disaster, the European Union should be doing everything in its power to phase out this type of high-risk technology, rather than developing it further.
However, we do not claim to be able to assess whether the project will be a success. This is an open question, but there are, of course, legitimate doubts about whether it will actually be as successful as the majority of its supporters here are always saying. The problem primarily concerns the additional financing. We have just heard that in the 2012 budget EUR 100 million will be taken away from the Seventh Framework Programme for Research, in other words, from other important investments in research. For 2013, the funding is once again completely unresolved. I can only agree with Mr Böge that the Council has behaved in a completely unfair way and this makes the fundamental attitude of six Member States clear. They are only interested in redistributing the European budget and are obviously no longer willing to admit how important the Europe 2020 strategy is for the European Union and no longer prepared to put their money on the table and invest in new competitiveness.
In particular now, following the outcome of the conference in Durban, it must be obvious that we need to invest in low-carbon technologies which will enable us to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions in a few years, which focus on renewable energy and which are genuinely able to take the European economy forward in this respect. However, that is exactly what is not being done with the ITER nuclear fusion reactor. Instead, urgently needed money is being taken from the area of new competitiveness and spent on the reactor, despite the fact that no one knows whether this project will ever be successful. From a green perspective, this is a case of setting the wrong priorities and, therefore, we will vote against it."@en1
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