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"Mr President, I find it very odd, as an MEP from a very developed and wealthy country, to be standing here to draw attention to a natural disaster of huge proportions in the region I represent.
Last week, just a few miles from my own home, I was taken to see homes where there are piles of furniture in each garden; homes that have been abandoned completely as their owners dare not come back yet; homes inside which floodwater had risen up to a metre or more – risen through the floor with extensive rainfall: two months’ rain falling in just 12 hours. Thousands of homes were destroyed, schools closed indefinitely, businesses and farms wiped out – often in communities that were previously in receipt of European structural funding.
Yesterday, there were buses bringing humanitarian aid – buses that normally service communities in Africa. The whole thing is incongruous, unreal – but very real and very devastating to the individuals whose homes and community infrastructure have been destroyed.
We hope our Government will make an application to the EU Solidarity Fund. I hope this House will support it. It would be appreciated if the House could show its support to these communities in the region of Yorkshire."@en1
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