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"Mr President, Commissioner, let me touch on an issue connected with climate change. In today’s debate no-one has mentioned the European Commission’s recent Communication on Reinforcing the Union’s Disaster Response Capacity. Attached to the Communication is a special annex entitled ‘Forest Fires’; this refers to the great, catastrophic fires that struck southern Europe, and Greece in particular, last summer.
These fires are linked to climate change. I believe there is an urgent need to take preventive measures throughout Europe and especially in the south, which, according to the IPCC, is more prone to fires and is already facing frequent bouts of extreme weather conditions. For this reason, Commissioner, there is a compelling need for the EU to take both medium-term and immediate measures in order to ensure that events like those of last year are not repeated next summer."@en1
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