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". Mr President, Commissioner, thank you for your answer, but we are not satisfied with it. I am not satisfied with it, because, if you will allow me to be particularly direct and straightforward, at the end of the day the question we might ask ourselves today, following your proposals, is whether the European Union really wants to preserve its biodiversity. If so, it is like a cathedral, we need to provide the resources to manage the Natura 2000 network. Without money, without a budget that is actually set aside for this expenditure, I do not think it is worth us deluding ourselves. Commissioner, we are all well aware, and most of my fellow Members in this room know this from their experience on the ground that if it is not clearly stated that funds can be obtained in the regions through the Rural Development Fund, the ERDF Structural Fund or the ESF, then all the money will go to everything but Natura 2000. Natura 2000 will be in direct competition with all the other projects. Of course, agriculturally there will be possibilities for integration, which will be the proof that Natura 2000 has been integrated. But we are not deluding ourselves, Commissioner. We really need to go further. And because we have absolutely no confidence in this proposal, as rapporteur for Life+, I am proposing, as the Council and the Commission have not decided on the 3 billion euros per year needed for management, that in Life+ we should include a Life section, which was formerly ‘Nature’: Life management Natura 2000. We are waiting for all the guarantees that the Natura 2000 network can be put in place, because, Commissioner, both here and on the ground, we have fought hard for it. On the ground, we only wanted … ( )"@en1
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