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"Mr President, we seem to have developed a collective psychosis over electricity generation in Europe. Germany is building coal—fired power stations while we in my country, Britain, are closing them down. Germany is closing its nuclear fleet and France is cutting back, while we in Britain scramble to find Chinese funding for new nuclear capacity. But this is nothing compared to the disaster of our over—commitment to unreliable, intermittent and expensive renewables. We have forced up prices, undermined competitiveness and driven energy—intensive businesses out of Europe altogether, taking their jobs and their investment with them. As our colleague Antonio Tajani has said, we are creating an industrial massacre in Europe.
The issues we are debating today – more flexibility, more interconnectors – may have merit in themselves, but compared to the crisis of competitiveness, we are merely fiddling at the margin. We are debating the wrong issues. As we say in my country: we are barking up the wrong tree."@en1
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