European Parliament
Reinhard Rack (PPE-DE ).
(DE)
Mr President, is the very example the Commissioner has just given not a typical indication that the Union should endeavour to view disaster relief as a separate entity and provide funds promptly to this end – as, indeed, had already been done in the case of the floods – rather than attempting to push things forward by way of derogations within traditional policy areas: fisheries, transport or other policy? After all, experience has shown that that takes far too long and does not work.

