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"en.20031009.2.4-063"2
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The Portuguese delegation of the Group of the Party of European Socialists welcomes the European Parliament’s decision to grant Portugal EUR 48.5 million from the Solidarity Fund, to help with the recovery of the huge tracts of woodland and agricultural land destroyed in our country by this year’s fires. We would like to emphasise, nonetheless, that this amount falls far short of what is needed, given the scale of the tragedy.
In this connection, we would remind you that during the various budgetary debates after 1999 the Portuguese socialist delegation proposed repeatedly that a fund of this nature be established, and we vigorously support Commissioner Barnier’s intention to review current regulations to allow them to respond more adequately to natural disasters on this scale.
Bearing in mind the modest sum available from the Solidarity Fund, we appeal to the Commission to make all possible use of the flexibility clause, as this is a
case, so as to allow money to be reprogrammed from the Structural Funds and from rural development, in order to support Portuguese rural society through an integrated programme to recover from the effects of this disaster."@en1
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