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"en.20120910.24.1-123-000"2
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"Mr President, every September, year after year, many of us in this House raise our voices to speak of the fires in southern Europe, which result in human fatalities, the loss of property and the destruction of forest and farmland. The losses are difficult to calculate. Sometimes, the fires are caused by criminal or careless acts, but favourable conditions for the fires are also caused by high temperatures and worsening drought.
In Portugal, for example, 80% of the country is experiencing severe drought. The area that has been burnt in 2012 is already twice the average for the last ten years. The possibility of making an application to the EU Civil Protection Mechanism is important in order to relieve the misery caused, but it is also of vital importance to enhance the existing EU instruments and create others in order to minimise the occurrence of fires, and to control their spread and devastating effects. This can be done firstly by promoting a forestry policy that is appropriate for the geographic and climatic diversity of Europe, and secondly through mechanisms for combining forces and means of fighting fires, so as to enable rapid and robust action."@en1
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