- (DE) Madame la Présidente, Monsieur le Commissaire, Monsieur le Ministre, Mesdames et Messieurs, vous n’avez pas tous entendu le discours impressionnant de la présidence du Conseil sur le changement climatique. Néanmoins, vous aurez déjà entendu, comme c’est mon cas, de nombreuses allocutions de ce type, et comme M. Gabriel, un vieil ami (nous avons en effet fait de la politique ensemble au niveau provincial), a horreur de la langue de bois, je voudrais juste dire que, si les mots pouvaient arrêter net le changement climatique, il n’en serait probablement plus question aujourd’hui.
– (DE) Madam President, Commissioner, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, not all of you heard the Council Presidency’s impressive speech on climate change, but, just as I have, you will have heard many of its kind, and, since Mr Gabriel, my old friend from our days together in provincial politics, is given to plain speaking, I would just like to say that, if it were possible for words to halt climate change in its tracks, the problem would probably be gone by now, but I have to tell both Mr Gabriel and the Commissioner that this situation has to be assessed in terms of what is being done about it rather than of what is being said about it.
