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"Mr President, Commissioner, as Mr Poignant points out quite rightly in his report, back in 1989 the Commission presented its proposal for a European register of ships, known as ‘Euros’, and the European Parliament recently approved the Sterckx report resulting from the
accident, calling for this possibility to be examined again.
Being aware that the Member States do not currently want to surrender their identity at sea, but also of the advantages of all our ships displaying a European symbol, I proposed the idea of the symbol of the European Union appearing in one of the corners of the flags, the ring of stars on a blue background. I believe that my British colleagues in the Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism were offended by this. I would like to clarify to them that my idea does not violate their Union Jack. A flag has four corners and theirs has three available. I believe it is very positive and it has great synergy for all of us that European Union ships should be identifiable in all the seas of the world."@en1
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