Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-12-18-Speech-3-115"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-12-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Safety at sea and measures to alleviate the effects of the Prestige oil tanker disaster2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021218.6.3-115"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-12-18-Speech-3-1162
lpv:speaker	lp:Bernard Poignant2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Parti socialiste (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; PECH (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; BUDG (2002-07-29--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, the is still lying at the bottom of the sea, off the coast of my home town. On behalf of the people of Brittany in France, I would therefore like to pay tribute to the people of Galicia in Spain, whose lives have also been affected by an oil slick. Europe’s work is dictated by one crisis after another. The attacks of 11 September produced a European arrest warrant; from the Sangatte centre emerged the right to asylum and substantial measures were drawn up as a result of the disaster. The Commission has worked well, but what are we going to do now? We have the whole shebang: oil in the Atlantic and old bangers in the Pas-de-Calais. The only thing left to do is fill them up with petrol. Things just never change. We need to learn a lesson, so we will learn it. I am sure we will make the provisions on single-hull vessels more stringent, I am sure we will step up the measures on battered old boats, I am sure we will step up this, that and the other. I am going to make a suggestion, Commissioner: you should start to explore the idea of a European coastal guard, which does not work in the same way as in the United States but uses our method. You will see – because this is not necessarily our last disaster – this request will become increasingly popular in coastal communities. The people will demand it and they will not understand why the seas remain in this state. I am not telling you to do this in two minutes flat, but to start thinking about it, because, as usual, it will come to pass, as the result of the next disaster or the next crisis, in the same way that the European arrest warrant and many other measures have been introduced. This is the way Europe works. Since necessity is ultimately the mother of legislation, let us begin by adopting legislation where it is needed."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Erika"1

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