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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, we must indeed do something, and we can go even further than what has already been agreed. I am therefore pleased that the two biggest groups here in Parliament support our proposals for a European coastguard and a European civil ‘rapid reaction force’.
Firstly for prevention. We need a European coastguard to watch over European interests and to prevent ships in distress from being passed from pillar to post by Member States who put their own interests first and in doing so make the wrong decisions. The coastguard must be the strong arm of the agency for maritime safety.
Secondly, the European civil protection intervention corps must be able to turn out immediately in an emergency and arrive with its own equipment. These ‘Green Helmets’ will then be able to step in anywhere in the European Union, as not all Member States have the equipment and expertise needed to tackle disasters. I witnessed what was happening in Galicia a week after the disaster, and I saw what a difficult job our Belgian civil protection intervention corps had to do and how long an action of this kind takes to get under way. I have been told that big construction companies are now having to be called in. This is of course unacceptable.
Finally I would like to ask the Council to urgently direct its attention to the liability directive, as this lies at the heart of the problem of maritime transport, both in Europe and worldwide. Commissioner, perhaps you could pass this message on to the next presidency: ‘Nunca mais' [never again]."@en1
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