European Parliament
Nogueira Román (Verts/ALE ).
(PT)
Mr President, the President-in-Office of the Council has just called this problem a ‘natural disaster’. I should like to ask him why he attributes natural causes to a disaster that has clearly occurred as the result of political and therefore preventable reasons? A natural disaster is clearly something quite different. This is like calling a crash involving several cars or lorries on a motorway a natural disaster! It is other types of causes that need to be cleared up.
I feel that the Greek Presidency is getting off to a bad start on this matter if it thinks that this is really a natural disaster. I would ask: why are you calling this a natural disaster, which I believe is a complete misnomer?

