Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-10-09-Speech-3-141"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-10-09"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Solidarity Fund2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021009.9.3-141"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-10-09-Speech-3-1422
lpv:speaker	lp:Esther Herranz García2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; AGRI (2002-02-19--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Hungary Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-03-07--2004-04-30)3 unknown; Partido Popular (2002-01-21--2004-07-19)3 member; BUDG (2002-02-27--2004-03-28)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-03-07--2004-04-30)3 member; EPP-ED (2002-01-21--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I am happy with the speed and skill demonstrated in the response to the demands of the European citizens in relation to the recent and very regrettable disaster in Central Europe. I would also like to express my gratitude for, and recognition of, the consensus which has existed in the Committee on Budgets in relation to this issue. All of this demonstrates that Parliament ought to attach great importance to this issue since, as the only supranational institution in the world directly elected by the citizens, it is able to be sensitive to the needs and demands of the Europeans. In this way, the European Union will have dealt with one of its outstanding duties towards those who are suffering, or who may suffer in the future, situations which leave them literally devastated socially, economically and morally. With regard to the articles of the document we are debating today, in relation to the way in which the payment of aid should be made, following the decision to invoke the solidarity instrument, I must say that it is necessary to provide the aid completely and immediately, in order to respond responsibly and coherently to the spirit in which this Fund has been created and which is taken up in the explanatory statement. The text submitted for approval responds to the undesirable but unfortunately probable future situations which both the imbalances in the weather system and the changing nature of the planet itself may confront us with, whether through possible drastic changes resulting either from excessive activity or from defects in the rainfall systems or atmospheric circulation, through tectonic movements or volcanic activity, or through any other type of extreme disaster which may take place. Through this document, the citizens of Europe are promising to show solidarity amongst themselves. It is our heartfelt wish here in Parliament that, in the future, this extraordinary aid will not have to be used, because financial measures cannot replace human lives and cannot put an end to the pain which feelings of loss can cause people."@en1

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