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I should like to start by referring to how strict or less strict we are. In particular for Greece and for me, what I can say is that I am neither more nor less strict with the country of which I am a national. I try to be objective and to do what is needed in order to protect the health of the citizens in the European Union and, of course, in Greece, and to protect the ecosystems and the environment.
Consequently, we deal objectively and with an effort to improve conditions for health and the environment and questions of recourse to the Court and, I repeat, I always try to ensure we avoid going to the Court and find other ways of dealing with issues.
The honourable Member said that the Commission should have even more competences and should indicate specific methods. What I can say to you is that, depending on the conditions which apply in each country, the best method is applied. The method of waste management in northern Europe is not the same as the method in southern Europe or in one country in relation to another or even in areas within the same country. There are reasons why one country prefers incineration and recycling and another country prefers landfill in order to reinforce the ground and, of course, our basic objective is always to try to prevent the creation of waste.
On the specific question of Psyttalia, the European Union has intervened in the financing of the first project, which was third-level treatment of waste, and now the drying unit. That being so, as for what happens about the problem created by the Greek Government by collecting all this sewage sludge on the island, that is not the European Union's business to say what should be done with this sewage sludge.
It is a problem which was created by neglecting to build the drying unit at the right time, ten years ago, with the result that all this sludge has collected. However, it is not our job to say what should be done with this sewage sludge and how the government should address the problem."@en1
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