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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-11-21"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The oil tanker 'Prestige' wrecked off the coast of Galicia2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021121.7.4-169"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-11-21-Speech-4-1702
lpv:speaker	lp:Camilo Nogueira Román2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; AFCO (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Bloque Nacionalista Galego (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; PECH (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2002-10-09--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Galicia’s national poet, Rosalia de Castro, who always felt great solidarity with the fate of the Galician people, coined the phrase ‘black shadow’ to express a sense of anguish that troubled her. Today Galicia, and also the whole of Europe, is suffering from the ‘black shadow’ caused by political irresponsibility and the contemptible interests of the mafias that control maritime traffic and flags of convenience. The disaster is now the fourth to have occurred off the coast of Galicia in recent years. The names and are, together with that of the part of our consciousness and of our collective misfortunes. On the Coast of Death and in the Rias Baixas and the Rias Altas, these misfortunes are remembered even more sharply. Therefore, in these emergency situations, we, the men and women of Galicia wonder: what good to us is the Spanish State – the authority whose main task and responsibility at this historic time is to protect our people, our nature, the marvellous Galician nature, and our economy, the persistent and long-suffering Galician economy? What good to us is the head of the State government who was absent from Galicia at a tragic time, whilst the inhabitants of the Coast of Death and the Rias were under attack from the and who, to universal scorn, was in Prague with NATO, dining out and sycophantically applauding President Bush and his unilateral and ‘preventive’ strikes? As a Galician and a supporter of European integration, I wonder, what major action have the Galician and EU authorities taken in this tragic situation? It is precisely in this Parliament that reactionary positions by Members contributed – and in this context I must agree with the Commissioner – to changing the legislation contained in the ‘Erika’ package, which would have prevented this accursed ship from continuing to move around our seas. Let us not be under any illusion: this disaster has consequences identical to those of a natural disaster, but it is really a political disaster and we know who the guilty parties are. Mr President, the location of the European Safe Seas Agency has still not been decided on, in contravention of the ‘Erika’ legislation. Once again, the governments of the Member States have not been equal to the circumstances. Following what has happened in Galicia, can any doubt remain that the Agency should be based in a region in which there is the greatest concentration of intercontinental traffic and where there is the greatest risk of accident?"@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(Applause)"1 "Prestige"1 "‘Aegean Sea’"1 "‘Casou’"1 "‘Urquiola’"1

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