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"Mr President, can I say that everyone in the Chamber this evening knows that the reason why this money is being held back in the system. It is because there is a great need for structural funding to be spent in our various countries and regions. We are now some two and a half years through the seven-year programme 2000-2006. We are thus over 30% of the way through, and we have grossly underspent. What we are doing now is giving the Member States the chance to get their act together and to spend this money, to help improve the environment, working conditions and employment prospects throughout our European Union. This is for the betterment of the economy as a whole and of conditions in our areas.
We are taking a responsible attitude and I am delighted that we have unanimity round the Chamber this evening. I hope this will be reflected in the voting tomorrow. It is very important indeed for us to make sure that the countries spend this money, to allow the private sector to get its act together because, at the end of 2006, with enlargement, we, the existing fifteen countries, will lose the ability to have structural funding. The other five or ten countries coming into the European Union will demand structural funding for their countries. We will have a very rapid cut-off. It may well be that we do not even allow any overlapping into the year 2007-2008 on the spend if it gets further behind. I therefore urge every single government throughout the European Union to use this money, use it effectively and use it quickly. I thoroughly endorse the Chairman's guidance to us, as team captains so to speak, to make sure that we vote conclusively together tomorrow to withhold the necessary money and urge those countries to spend it properly."@en1
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