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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I had the opportunity to participate in the conference at Durban, and I realised how pointless it was.
We spent around EUR 300 000 on an event that produced nothing but hot air. The European Union and European Parliament had their offices in the garage of the Hilton hotel. When our delegation met the Chinese delegation we were treated like morons. We were given a talk of about twenty minutes by one of their deputy ministers and then their delegation upped and left, without even listening to what our President Jo Leinen had to say, leaving us standing there in shock.
We need to be careful about being top of the class. At a time of serious economic crisis, we risk putting too much pressure on the budgets of our enterprises. It would be much better to have the courage to tax goods imported from the countries that pollute the most and to use the income to fight climate change. I say a categorical ‘no’ to a Green Fund paid for by our citizens, most of which would end up in the pockets of the Chinese."@en1
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