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"Mr President, my group, the Group for a Europe of Democracies and Diversities, would also like to convey its condolences to the relatives of the victims of the severe floods in Europe, and we must find effective methods of helping the many people who are now in need of help. I would, however, warn against having the EU take part in the aid work. The victims of the hurricane in Latin America did not receive the money we had allocated. The EU often contents itself with accepting the public relations benefits of a major appropriation but is in no position to take effective action. That could also easily happen this time. It would be wiser to pay a portion of the bill for the aid programme that has now to be undertaken by the local, regional and national authorities, and I personally am prepared to go a very long way down this road, for it is in times of need that friends show their worth.
We are wealthy in the EU, much wealthier than, for example, the badly affected Czech Republic and Slovakia. We should now be resolute in showing our solidarity in practical, cash-down terms. We ought also, however, to look at the causes and take the greenhouse effect and other human assaults upon the environment seriously. France’s President Chirac is right, of course. He deserves great praise for his speech in Johannesburg. I am not yet in a position to assess the Danish Presidency of the Council’s contribution to Johannesburg, but it is scandalous both that we should continue to dump EU-subsidised goods on developing countries’ agricultural markets while refusing fully to open our own markets to those countries’ products and that it has not even been successfully agreed that 15% of energy should come from sustainable energy sources by the year 2015. It is presumably by means of this absence of decision-making that we are laying the foundation for the natural disasters to come. Thank you, Mr President, even though there is not a very great deal to express thanks for."@en1
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