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"en.20121121.20.3-201-000"2
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"The delay by the Council in approving commitment and payment appropriations through the EU Solidarity Fund for the earthquake victims of Emilia-Romagna has been widely condemned in the Italian press. Large amounts are allocated without hesitation for any cause that can gain political support in any part of the world, but when humanitarian needs arise in Italy following a violent earthquake, countless reasons can be found for reducing assistance.
The Council’s attitude is specious and the resolution is right to deplore both the delay and its unjustified nature. Winter, bringing harsh weather and difficult circumstances, is now almost here and is feared by the population as if it were another disaster. The children in tents that stand in for schools, the elderly, the sick and the workers in damaged factories have no insight into the bureaucratic and formal reasoning of the Council, but they do know that they will be bearing the brunt of any delay. This is both wrong and incomprehensible. Indeed – although I would not like to think this – this deplorable episode also represents one of the many points of discordance that have marked the life of our Union."@en1
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