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"Mr President, I too should like to express my solidarity, as a European, with all those areas that have been struck by natural disasters. With particular reference to two areas of European policy, namely rural policy and forestry policy, I should like to invite the Commissioner to consider whether we can deploy these policy measures more effectively in those regions that are being hit by drought or other climate-related disasters in the long term.
I refer primarily to southern Europe, southern Spain, but in particular southern Portugal and its cork oaks. The situation there shows that drought – not a man-made disaster therefore but long-term drought – constitutes a real threat, with all the consequences that this entails: drought stress in trees, including cork oak. We must see what we can do to offer those governments the opportunity of using either rural policy or forestry policy in order to combat stress diseases in those trees effectively. This is done far too little at the moment and I am convinced that if measures are not taken promptly, this will lead to climate change in those regions.
The same applies to forestry policy, for which I am the rapporteur in the Committee on Budgetary Control, and it would be good if in future, this policy could be used more to maintain traditional crops and indigenous tree species. They may not always be of great economic value, but they are vital if the nature and climate of the areas involved are to be maintained. In those areas, we could do a great deal by deploying rural and forestry policy to tackle those problems.
Finally, the South is being hit by a drought. In my own country, many fruit growers were badly affected by frost damage in February. It would be good if you were to make contact with your agricultural counterpart to assess to what extent the funds for rural policy can be used to pay compensation for extreme damage suffered in a specific year.
In other words, it sometimes pays to be more resourceful with the money you have than to ask for more."@en1
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