Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-06-16-Speech-3-524"

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dcterms:Date	"2010-06-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Floods in Central European countries, in particular Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20100616.34.3-524"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-06-16-Speech-3-5252
lpv:speaker	lp:Bas Eickhout2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; AGRI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; G/EFA (2009-07-14--2012-11-20)3 unknown; GroenLinks (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (2009-10-08--2011-07-31)3 member; ENVI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, our thoughts are with the victims of all the floods in Central Europe, and also of today’s flooding in France. These floods are a further painful demonstration of the force that rivers can unleash on us. We want to prevent flooding, and so we must mainly look to the future. How can this be prevented? We also know that climate change has meant rivers are increasingly often having to cope with more water in a shorter space of time. This means we must greatly intensify our investigations into ways of giving our rivers breathing space and of preventing this kind of disaster in Europe. After all, prevention is better than cure. Europe has a truly major role to play in this. First of all, there must be much more cross-border cooperation between countries. If one country does something to its river area and another does not, this will get us nowhere. We need cooperation between countries in tackling rivers. Secondly, the EU must also make responsible use of its own funds in future. EU Structural Funds are still being used too often for projects that only increase the risk of flooding. We must ensure that future EU projects we are paying for do not increase this kind of risk. This is an important task. Finally, the EU must also look into how better to use the natural buffering capacity of rivers to prevent these floods. Concrete and more concrete only increases the risk of even more flooding. So, then, we need breathing space for rivers, and we need to make use of their natural buffering capacity. This is the only way to prevent flooding in future. Indeed, it must be our primary objective for the future. As I say, prevention is better than cure."@en1
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