Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-10-25-Speech-3-260"

Predicate	Value (sorted: default)
rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-10-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Climate change – Floods2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001025.11.3-260"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-10-25-Speech-3-2612
lpv:speaker	lp:Cristiana Muscardini2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-09-10--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; UEN (2000-09-21--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with South Africa (1999-12-16--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Alleanza nazionale (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, in recent years we have witnessed an exponential increase in disasters on our territory: natural disasters which, in many cases, have caused havoc over entire regions and countries, natural disasters which are not entirely due to climate change – itself caused by interference from man – but which are also the result of changes made by man to the land, brought about by administrations, governments and citizens who have failed to make better provision for the environment, preserve it and guarantee its future. This year, Italy suffered first the tragedy in Calabria and then the current colossal tragedy, which has claimed over 25 deaths and left over 45 thousand homeless in the north. The Valle d'Aosta, Piedmont and many areas of the Po Valley and Lombardy were particularly hard hit. Last year, the tragedy in France destroyed hundred-year-old forests: an immeasurable loss for mankind. Mr President, five years ago, Italy suffered another great flood. Houses, bridges, roads, factories, shops and entire villages were destroyed on that occasion too. At the time, in my capacity as an MEP and member of the Alleanza Nazionale party, I asked the Commission to immediately prepare a measure identifying the areas at risk from flooding and to draw up a hydrogeological map of the regions of the European Union. Five years have passed, we are discussing another flood and there is still no hydrogeological map. Europe has done absolutely nothing to intervene and it has not put any pressure on the national States to change and improve the situations in the individual countries either. We are now proposing this map again, in the hope that we will not still be here, five years from now, counting bodies and reproaching ourselves for not having done our duty: a map of the areas of the European Union at risk, a directive laying down safety standards for buildings constructed beside rivers and streams, establishing operating criteria for forest management and preventing the working of mines and quarries in sites which are at risk, with penalties for those who authorise them and those who exploit them. We have to realise that preventing hazards which contribute to ecological change is the best way to protect the environment. This development, rural development included, must be environmentally friendly, for what is environmentally friendly is human-friendly as well."@en1

Named graphs describing this resource:

The resource appears as object in 2 triples

Context graph