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"Mr President, I think we should firstly express our sorrow for the victims. This is an irreparable loss. Secondly, we welcome the solidarity between the French departments and citizens, and the solidarity of other countries with France, which is the country worst affected.
As I have little time, Mr President, I would like to touch upon two elements of our resolution. I believe that the first one was implicitly recognised by the Commissioner in his speech when he wondered whether these catastrophes are natural or not. That is to say that experts are ever more convinced that climate change and human activities, in general terms, are linked to the increase seen in natural disasters in recent years. In fact, over the last decade, the temperature has risen more than in the rest of the century. Therefore Europe must be clearly committed to the Kyoto Protocol and make specific proposals.
Secondly, I was rapporteur for civil protection in Europe and I completely agree with the Commissioner’s proposal to create a European civil protection body. Furthermore, we should utilise an extraordinary budget line, since this is an extraordinarily catastrophic situation."@en1
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