– (DE) Madam President, Commissioner, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, not all of you heard the Council Presidency’s impressiv
e 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 a
ssessed in terms of what is being ...[+++]done about it rather than of what is being said about it.- (DE) Madame la Présidente, Monsieur le Commissaire, Monsieur le Ministre, Mesdames et Messieu
rs, vous n’avez pas tous entendu le discours impressionnant de la présidenc
e 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 lan
...[+++]gue 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.