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"Madam President, the European Union works best when it takes relatively small amounts of money to work with local authorities and other agencies in exchanging best practice and in part-financing policy projects in its policy priority areas.
The Intelligent Energy Europe (IEE) programme and the European Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation are outstanding examples of this in the field of combating climate change, so the Commission will understand the concern of Members of this House when we learn of plans to discontinue a programme which encourages citizens to use energy more wisely and to help the Union to meet its Kyoto commitments.
The Commission has talked about continuing work in this area, about mainstreaming it, about strengthening it in future funding programmes. Commissioner Oettinger was suggesting yesterday that Intelligent Energy Europe might go into the Horizon 2020, but we want to know whether there will be a dedicated programme still. We want to know whether this will have the visibility that the IEE programme has had. We want to know whether it will activate civil society and foster commitment in the same way.
As Ms Carvalho said, the European Local Energy Assistance Facility has leveraged huge amounts of money from a very small investment to help businesses become energy efficient, to retrofit social housing, to improve public transport, to design smart energy buildings and to connect renewable energy production into electricity grids. If that programme were to disappear it would be a real loss to a huge variety of decentralised activities to promote renewable energy and energy saving.
I think at heart the question that Members are asking is this: has the Commission lost its way when it comes to renewable energy? Why is it planning to pump money into gas distribution networks for the benefit of companies that are already making billions in profits, rather than pumping money into the vision that it still professes of a renewable energy Europe, one where we can meet our commitment of cutting carbon by 80% by 2050?"@en1
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