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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this is a time for us to show solidarity, but it is also an opportunity – I would even say an obligation – for us to work on improvements, changes and also adjustments. The adjustments needed straight away concern the European Union’s Solidarity Fund, so that it can be used – and used promptly – to address these disasters, while the improvements and changes concern forestry policy.
We need a European policy on forests that seeks both to raise their profile and to prevent fires. In many Member States, as is the case of mine, Portugal, there is not yet even a register of all the land, and so we do not know who the landowners are. That causes problems in land development, reforestation and fire prevention policy.
With regard to this prevention policy, I have here a question that is also a suggestion: why not include forest fire prevention measures in the EU’s economic recovery plan, the plan to revive the European economy? If we promoted measures to clean up our forests – and, for instance, the product of such measures could be used to produce energy through biomass power plants duly designed for the purpose – if we acted in that way, we would certainly be helping the environment by protecting it and, at the same time, we would be creating jobs which, at the current moment, is another of Europe’s aims."@en1
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