As the previous speakers have said, and as you said, Commissioner, in response to my fellow Member, Mr Martinez, with regard to another tragedy, the floods in November in the Southwest of France, you have certainly noted these disasters with concern, but all you are doing is pointing out that the budget line for emergency appropriations for natural disasters has been discontinued, which has resulted in this shocking paradox. This paradox, pointed out by the previous speaker, is that it is easier, a great deal easier, to offer help to victims of natural disasters outside the Union than within it.
Imidlertid, som de foregående talere sagde, og som De, hr. kommissær, skrev i et svar til min kollega, Jean-Claude Martinez, med hensyn til en anden tragedie, nemlig oversvømmelserne i november i Sydøstfrankrig, har De med bekymring bemærket disse katastrofer, men kan ikke gøre andet end at minde om, at budgetposten og nødhjælpsbevillingerne i forbindelse med naturkatastrofer er fjernet, hvilket fører til det chokerende paradoks, der blev fremhævet af den foregående taler, nemlig at det er betydeligt nemmere at komme ofre for naturkatastrofer uden for Unionen til hjælp, end det er at hjælpe vores egne borgere, når de rammes.