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"Mr President, the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport deserves our congratulations on its initiative to draft this report on how we can protect our cultural and natural heritage in the European Union, as does the rapporteur for the ideas and measures which she recommends, the majority of which I agree with.
Naturally – to come back to what the previous speaker said – every Member State of the European Union has a policy on these issues. Obviously, we have no intention of superseding national policy. However, we really do need a more general perception and a policy at Union level. And the reason is clear: it is because all Union policies have a considerable impact on how we preserve and promote our cultural and natural heritage – mainly a negative impact.
For example, the Union frequently funds projects and interventions through the Structural Funds which destroy or seriously affect monuments, the landscape and other elements of our cultural and natural heritage. There are, unfortunately, numerous examples from Greece alone. We fought long and hard some time ago to stop the Egnatia motorway from being routed alongside the ancient Dodoni theatre, where it would have prevented the audience from hearing the performance. Because of pressure from numerous organisations, the question of electricity pylons on the Cyclades islands was taken to the Privy Council, the Supreme Administrative Court in Greece, which broke new ground in its judgment and recognised, yet again, the value of the beauty of the landscape on these islands. Today, the question is still in abeyance of the new Olympic facilities in Schinia in Marathon, an historic site
for the whole of Europe as well as a particularly important wetland which was initially included in the ΝΑΤURA 2000 lists, Commissioner. We should like to save it, quite how I do not know.
The construction is also in abeyance of the new museum on the Acropolis, a stone's throw from the sacred rock and the Parthenon. It is to be located on top of older archaeological remains, thereby endangering both the remains in question and the aesthetics of the whole area and the vista leading up to the world-renowned sacred rock and the Parthenon.
This project and many others have one thing in common: they hope to receive, or they are already in receipt of, Community funding. It is therefore quite clear why I wholeheartedly support the particular points in the resolution which call on the Commission to examine projects from the point of view of their impact on cultural and natural heritage, their historical importance and their visual impact, all of which should be made into eligibility criteria, before any funding is approved."@en1
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