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"Mr President, I appreciate the European Commission’s proactive attitude towards the impact of the anticipated restructuring of the car industry. The crisis has taught us one thing and reminded us of a truth: that the industry is extremely important for the robustness of Europe’s economy, and the car industry is important for Europe’s industrial basis. It creates jobs not only in countries where cars are assembled, but also through the supply chain in all Member States. For instance, no car comes off a production line in Germany today without it containing, for example, parts manufactured in Romania.
However, the car industry is in global competition. It is a global industry which faces strong global competition, and a European or national policy can support or kill off this industry’s competitiveness. If we look, we will see that there is no Member State in the European Union which is similar to another Member State in terms of the tax regime for pollution, car registration taxes and so on, and these differences are obstacles to the development of the European car industry, obstacles in the single market. Is there nothing we can do to harmonise things a little, to eliminate these differences? In the United States, as in other countries, governments have given substantial aid to the car industry in order to innovate and switch to cars with lower carbon dioxide emissions. We need to do likewise."@en1
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