Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-01-12-Speech-3-157"
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"Mr President, the heavenly feeling I had on Sunday morning, while having breakfast on the Indian coast, later turned to horror when I set off for the hinterland and saw the images of violence and destruction that Sunday’s killer had left in its wake. Many days later, it turned out that 150 000 people had been killed and 2 million made homeless.
The EUR 475 million from the EU is a serious contribution for Asia and for African countries, but as Mr Deva and Mrs Mathieu stated, we see it as unacceptable that some of those funds should be made available by reprogramming funds for Asia and funds from the European Development Fund (EDF). I would add that that also applies to pledges from the EU Member States to the tune of EUR 1.5 billion. The Commission and the Council must therefore ensure that additional new funds are created. That is a tough demand by Parliament, and we will be discussing it again in due course.
It is vitally important that the UN should play a coordinating role, and that the role of local organisations and local priorities should be respected. Together with our counterparts in the national parliaments of the Member States, we in this House must set up a kind of tsunami watch to monitor whether the pledges are delivered upon and to ensure that prompt transitional regulations are put in place.
What action is the EU taking in terms of flexible reconstruction to prevent a recurrence of what we saw happening after hurricane Mitch – a yawning chasm emerging between emergency aid on the one hand and structural aid on the other? Commissioner Michel has pledged a scoreboard of EUR 475 million in commitments/funds. That should be done on a quarterly basis, with us being informed as to what progress has been made with regard to the early warning system in Asia. We would like the same system in Africa, because that has so far been refused.
What matters most in my view is that the poorest of the poor, those poor fishing communities, receive the pledged funds and that they can have a say in how they are spent. If not, the money will be caught again in intermediate layers, which would be a crying shame. I would therefore urge you to give clear instructions to your EU delegations on the ground and to include this quality requirement in your scoreboard. With regard to Europe, I should like to quote the words of Johan Cruyff: ‘
’ – for every disadvantage there is an advantage. I hope that we can use this momentum together for the benefit of effective European solidarity."@en1
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