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"Mr President, Commissioner, the fires in Galicia this summer have been put out badly and late. The result has been a disaster. According to Commission sources in the middle of August – and I would be grateful if the Commissioner could give me a more up-to-date figure today – 88 473 hectares have been burnt, not including burnt areas of less than 50 hectares, of which there are many in Galicia, where farms are small, and the total burnt area is therefore well over 100 000 hectares, which is equivalent to 80% of the total area burnt in Spain and half of the entire area burnt in Europe.
Four fatalities, 514 injured, 35 villages evacuated, the main communication routes cut, many animals killed and seriously injured: in short, a real tragedy, an unprecedented environmental and human disaster, with immeasurable economic and social consequences. Unquestionably Galicia’s worst environmental disaster. The
disaster, which has been mentioned here, did not lead to any human victims and Galicia recovered quickly, as a result of the rapid action of marine regeneration, but this latest tragedy has left us with human victims and burnt areas that all the experts say will take 20, 30 or perhaps even more years to recover. How will it affect the climate, biodiversity, underground aquifers and the Natura 2000 areas that have been devastated?
Commissioner, what has failed this year in Galicia? Do you know? Do you believe that the fire can be said to have been tackled effectively in Galicia? You have told us here that the Spanish authorities asked for assistance and the European Union quickly responded. Could you tell us the date when it was requested, as others have asked? Could that cooperation have been improved?
Given the European dimension of this disaster, it falls to us in this Parliament to emphasise its magnitude and also to call for the resources necessary and assistance available to alleviate its dramatic short-, medium- and long-term consequences and to cooperate so that we can find out what has failed, in order to stop it happening again. To this end, we would ask for the urgent mobilisation of the European Union’s Solidarity Fund for Galicia, which has been devastated by fire and which is facing a very serious ecological, economic and social situation."@en1
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