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"en.20010313.11.2-139"2
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"Mr President, a policeman stops an articulated lorry in Germany because it is going too fast. The official checks the cargo: it is radioactive material, all in order with all the necessary permits. When the official, who works in the centre of Düsseldorf, a densely populated German city, realises the risk posed by the consignment of radioactive material, he asks the driver, “But why did you go right through Düsseldorf, where there are so many people? Couldn't you have taken a longer, more isolated route? These goods are highly dangerous”. “Well Sir,” replies the driver, “do you not know that, this very day, the European Parliament has adopted the report tabled by Mr Hatzidakis – who is a very great, extremely important, very good MEP – Paragraph 2 (page 8) of which calls upon the Member States to apply the shortest possible distance principle to shipments of nuclear material. Therefore, I took the shortest route for my consignment of radioactive material.” And this leads me to state that something needs changing: it is better to take a long, safer route than a short, dangerous one."@en1
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