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Mr President, I support and welcome the proposed additional funding for the ITER project. There are several reasons for this.
In the long term, I take the view that nuclear fusion may be a chance for humanity to solve the fundamental problem of securing energy in the future. We do not have many such possibilities. I also firmly believe that Europe should be in the forefront of research and development. In the European Parliament, we have always ultimately supported this trend, while understandably bearing in mind the need for transparency and the targeted spending of substantial resources on flagship projects. We must, however, get over the constant foot-dragging surrounding the funding problems of key EU plans. Everything comes at a price. The crisis is no argument. On the contrary, we must support projects such as ITER in order to overcome the crisis and for the sake of our future prospects, not least because the programme is also an opportunity for smaller EU states. We also need to give a boost to the small and medium-sized enterprises that are producing half of all the components for the fusion programme.
It would short-sighted not to try, even indirectly, to exploit the sun and water for the good of mankind, even if the fundamental results of the ITER projects are perhaps beyond some of us."@en1
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