Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-04-19-Speech-4-367-000"
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"en.20120419.15.4-367-000"2
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"Increase excise duty on diesel? Along with most of my other fellow members, I voted resolutely against this resolution this afternoon. Not because this measure, which effectively aims to put the taxation of petrol and diesel on an equal footing, is wrong in itself. Indeed, one good thing is that it is accompanied by a wide series of exemptions and a very gradual phasing in. I quite simply believe that it is not appropriate here at this moment in time.
We are experiencing an unprecedented economic crisis. Citizens face incredible difficulties in paying their household energy expenses. That is why I find it unthinkable that the signal sent today is to penalise them further still.
I would simply like to remind you in passing that our Assembly is merely consulted on this matter. It is the governments which decide, unanimously, on these fiscal issues. This has not been made particularly clear in the fairly harsh press coverage over recent days. It is therefore their responsibility to move this debate on, by forcing the Commission to define the range of environmental issues more clearly and to ensure that the harmonisation sought does not depend on an automatic increase in taxes. There are other tools, other options, which, in point of fact, are too rarely taken."@en1
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