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The sinking of the 'Prestige' was not an accident. It was the logical consequence of a mixed, national and European decision-making system, which paralyses the Member States without actually imposing the necessary radical measures. It thus leaves the way open to certain maritime transport mafias that operate in an area without law...And everything is perhaps done for that.
Some of my colleagues think that we need to get out of this bad situation by imposing a central and supranational European authority. This solution may seem attractive, but there is a risk of it being far removed from the people, badly democratically monitored, and therefore susceptible to the pressure of financial interests.
Moreover, there is no point in putting together the European Member States that are affected by the problem, and others that are not affected. That would only slow down the decisions.
Without excluding European directives out of hand, they need to be supplemented by re-establishing the Member States’ right to protect themselves. We also need to admit that the Member States that are threatened must be able to take measures together, outside of Community procedures. And the bottom line is that we need to ban from our waters any vessel for which the person responsible is not clearly identified, cannot be located, is not credit-worthy or is not completely insured."@en1
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