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"Mr President, Commissioner, I would like to say firstly that I am speaking on behalf of Mr Pérez Álvarez, a Galician, who has had to return to his region urgently.
I would like to say that I fully agree with the Commissioner’s words and support those measures which offer a clear line of action. We also share her desire for their application to be speeded up. This is what is needed, and what we do not need is any more political demagoguery such as that expressed in some speeches we have heard here.
Perhaps these are the thoughts of a Galician countryman, whose future and family situation is looking grim following what has been described as the worst ecological, economic and social disaster in the history of Galicia. We understand that the people of Galicia are today sad and angry, and that sadness and anger has known and identifiable faces: each and every one of the people directly affected by the oil slick caused by the oil tanker disaster, and each and every one of the Galicians who, in Galicia and throughout the world, love their homeland and all of those of us who feel solidarity with them.
On the other side are the people responsible, whose faces are obscured behind flags of convenience and legal procedures distorted to this end, and with a view to fraudulently avoiding the rules of the internal market, without caring about possible ecological damage – which is now real – and social and economic harm, and, without wanting to be alarmist, the damage which may also be in store for other coastal areas as the result of a domino effect. I believe that enough has been said and that we must look forward, learning from the lessons of the immediate past.
The Galician Government has said that it is not going to impose any limits on the aid to the people affected. The Spanish Government and the European Commission is announcing measures. But situations such as this cannot and must not happen again, and we must repair and prevent the effects which may yet extend to other areas of Galicia or Portugal, because the risk remains there.
We will all be grateful for the measures taken, especially those who live, work and suffer along our coasts."@en1
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