European Parliament
James Hugh Allister (NI ). –
Can the Commissioner comment on the validity and logic of a policy that compels Member States to radically reduce emissions with resulting increases in EU energy prices and lower manufacturing output while, at the same time, we promote trade with and production in China, the world’s greatest polluter, with no enforceable requirements for the suppression of emissions from them. I do not object to trade with China, but I do object to the lack of compulsion upon them to reduce their emissions.
In effect, are we not really trading jobs and emissions ...
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