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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to start by thanking Mrs Locatelli both for her careful work and her truly exemplary cooperation with all sides. I wish in my intervention to emphasise and confine myself to one amendment.
In particular, we all know that we are living in an age of uncertainty and increased mass risks, especially environmental risks. The recent catastrophic tsunami in South-East Asia should have convinced even the most incredulous among us that there is an immediate and urgent need to fortify our continent against this sort of catastrophic natural disaster.
The scientists who study these phenomena come from many and varied sectors: seismologists, geologists, oceanologists, forestry experts and others. I believe that it is very important for the safety and welfare of European citizens for strong momentum to be given to these areas of research, especially as they appear to be converging continuously and increasingly into a risk and crisis management model.
That is why I think that we should make special reference to natural dangers. An amendment to this effect has been tabled by the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats; I refer to Amendment 8. An additional reason for this, no less important, is its link with the Lisbon Strategy. In fact, both the Commission communication on the mid-term review of the Lisbon Strategy and the resolution we adopted today emphasise the importance of eco-innovation to sustainable development in Europe. This means that, in the revised Lisbon Strategy, environmental technologies and high environmental standards will hold an important position.
Ladies and gentlemen, the amendment we are proposing does not simply set out yet another thematic priority; it aims to make express reference to a research sector which comes within the philosophy of the revised Lisbon Strategy."@en1
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