Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-02-06-Speech-3-302"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-02-06"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Economic and social cohesion2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020206.12.3-302"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-02-06-Speech-3-3032
lpv:speaker	lp:Emmanouil Mastorakis2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; CONT (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Panellinio Socialistiko Kinima (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Ladies and gentlemen, in discussing Mr Musotto's report, we obviously want to express our concerns about the future of political cohesion in the Union, given that, if the gap between the rich and the poor is to narrow and they are to feel that they belong to the same European body, they need to converge economically and socially. Of course, our starting point is fundamentally contradictory. We want much greater enlargement, but without providing the corresponding funds and we invent lower and lower cohesion targets along the lines of "if the mountain won't come to Mohammed, then let’s take Mohammed to the mountain". Be that as it may, we face a very tricky problem and we are required to resolve it in less than optimum circumstances, while keeping up the fight to improve those circumstances. Obviously, we do not want a twin-track Europe, as previous speakers have stressed, but we want a multi-track Europe even less. So our objective must be to help the new regions where they need help, but without abandoning the old regions which also need help, when they need help. So I think we need to state that 0.45% is inadequate and that the Cohesion Fund and other Community initiatives need to keep functioning as they have done so far, given that they have proven to be extremely efficient. And of course we must take a very careful look at the future of political cohesion, in conjunction with the policy of sustainable development and agricultural policy. It is our duty here to avoid stop-gap, hasty solutions which might prove to be the undoing of our farmers, whom we need for the countryside, for the environment, for our very existence."@en1

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