translate English to German: Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, what has occurred in a tributary of the Danube is considered by many experts to be an accident on an environmental scale as serious as the scale of the Chernobyl disaster.
Frau Präsidentin, liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, was da in einem Nebenfluß der Donau passiert ist, halten viele Umweltfachleute für genauso schwerwiegend wie den Störfall von Tschernobyl.