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"Commissioner, today we are mourning the three poor fire-fighters who lost their lives in Crete and we send our deepest condolences to their families. Unfortunately, this tragedy was not unavoidable. The Greek Government did nothing to prevent it, even though it had foreseen it in its recent report to the Commission, in which it admitted dangerous shortcomings in the coordination between the ministries and a lack of preventive planning.
However, Greece – as it also admits in the same report – had spectacular improvements in its performance in forest protection between 2001 and 2004. The Greek tragedy in 2007 reminds us that, unfortunately, there will always be fires. However, there will also be good or bad policies for preventing or dealing with them. What is to blame for today’s regression needs European investigation.
I therefore call on you to send a Commission investigation team to Greece and to activate the Solidarity Fund to support my country. The fires destroyed huge swathes of the Greek and European forest heritage and the lessons from the failure in putting them out can be used throughout Europe.
Last year, in reply to my question, Commissioner Dimas revealed that he had emphasised three times to the Greek Government that the Commission was ready to send fire-fighting aid to Greece and that three times Greece had refused it. This year, now that we have woken them up, the Greek Government has finally activated the mechanism you said. However, this could not, of course, save anything when the government has failed to address all the other huge known shortcomings."@en1
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