Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-02-Speech-2-023"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-09-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Cohesion policy2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030902.1.2-023"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-02-Speech-2-0242
lpv:speaker	lp:Riitta Myller2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Suomen Sosialidemokraattinen Puolue/Finlands Socialdemokratiska Parti (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 vice-chair; PES (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the European Union’s regional and structural policy must be based on genuine solidarity between the different regions of the EU. The aim should be economic integration and an understanding of the differences arising from regional disparities. We must take full account of the needs of the new Member States in future proposals to ensure there is effective use of aids to achieve structural reforms and that the aids have permanent effects on citizens’ lives. Although we are taking the new Member States into full consideration, the regions in the current Member States needing special support must also be included in any new plans. I too wish to thank the rapporteur, Mr Pomés Ruiz, for having very seriously proposed that regions with permanent structural constraints should also be included in any special aid programmes in the future. Such permanent constraints are, for example, remoteness and geographical isolation. These regions, moreover, have a low population density and difficult climatic conditions. It is vital that these permanent handicaps should be seen as the same kind of factor that hampers competitiveness as that which has been described regarding island regions. Thus, the means by which aid is delivered to the outlying, sparsely populated northern regions is not the most important consideration, as long as these needs are taken account of with a sufficient sense of solidarity and equality. I also trust that, whilst the new proposal on structural and regional policy after 2007 is being drafted during this autumn, the Commission will show a sense of fairness and also include in its proposal the regions that have a low population density which are situated in the north and where distances are long."@en1

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