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The disaster that has once again struck Portugal, which has reduced hundreds of thousands hectares to ashes, left families homeless, destroyed areas of countryside and worst of all taken a number of lives, deserves our concern and our commitment to finding solutions to keep its effects, where possible, to a minimum. A serious, concerted effort is also required to ensure that this does not happen again.
It is clear that climate change, and the extreme heat that is has brought, is the direct, immediate cause of the scale of the disaster. Human neglect, however, is a further factor that should not be discounted.
I personally believe that the commitment shown by the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats, on the initiative of the MEPs from the People’s Party in Portugal (CDS-PP), will ultimately make a major contribution towards raising awareness among the Community institutions and towards providing resources.
This resolution, which also refers to disasters in other Member States deserving of our solidarity for similar reasons, will help the decision-making process and the implementation of the measures required. Of these measures, I should like to highlight the urgent need to reinstate aid for creating firebreaks and the call for the mobilisation of the Solidarity Fund. With regard to these two aspects, incidentally, I have no choice but to conclude that the Portuguese Government has been dreadfully negligent."@en1
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