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"Mr President, I join those who have praised the excellent and conscientious work of Mr Seeber.
Each year, the Danube and Tisza transport 120 billion cubic metres of water through Hungary, which makes us per-capita leaders in Europe. Unfortunately, due to climate changes and human interventions, we must defend ourselves against floods several times a year, as we are doing right now, or as we did in April this year, over a distance of 1 500 kilometres. Each time we incur defence costs in the region of one hundred million euros, and if a dam bursts, the damages reach billions of euros.
It is time we realised that we cannot fight nature, because we can never have a lasting victory. We need to change our approach, and this is what the concept of sustainable development is about. It is high time that this change of approach transformed our flood defence strategies. This must be based on a complex programme that places equal importance on flood defence, rural development and environmental protection priorities.
Water-preserving water management that uses techniques that are close to nature must be given priority. In this respect, we must encourage land use changes along rivers, and land management in flood plains. The creation of water controlling systems based on the retention of excess water brought by floods should be supported with EU agricultural environment management assistance. Within flood plain management, it would be worth supporting decentralised renewable energy production based on the biomass created on flood plains. The infrastructure problems of the affected areas should be solved with integrated area and rural development programmes, with particular attention given to the refurbishment and maintenance of road networks between and within settlements.
Finally, a great merit of the report is that it emphasises the vital importance of cooperation between countries sharing river basins. It is not difficult to find the connection between the floods on the Tisza, and the illegal deforestation and timber theft committed with underworld methods in Ukraine, Romania, and recently in Hungary. I would like to call on the competent authorities of the affected countries to do everything in their power to combat the forest corruption that has reached such tragic proportions in Eastern Europe."@en1
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