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"Mr President, who knows, this could be my last speech in this Parliament and I am damned if I am going to make it supporting a deal which betrays Europe, which is simply the response to threats from China and some others and leaves us looking weak.
We have been told that Airbus will be threatened even though Airbus has more than five thousand planes on its order books. We have an emissions trading scheme which has been introduced by the Commission which works, which can demonstrate leadership and which we should be supporting. We have been told, of course, that ICAO – of course we want a global deal – has been talking of having a market-based mechanism since 2001, and what is the betting it will actually have one in 2020? It is about as much chance as we will start seeing fairies at the bottom of the garden, I suspect.
This deal is weak, weak, weak! The Council has completely let us down. I think we look to Paris next year. The reality is that we are not going to get the global agreement that some of us would like: the level playing field. We are going to have to take initiatives on a national and a regional basis and this is exactly the sort of initiative we should be taking. It sets a good example for the whole world. It shows European leadership and to be supporting this deal for this Council, this let-down, is absolutely shameful."@en1
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