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The report again finds that EU regional policy has failed. There are still huge inequalities in the development of several areas, while the prospects for the poorer Member States are unpropitious.
With enlargement, due to the purely statistical approach, numerous areas in the existing Member States risk being excluded from funding. In Greece, for example, four areas will not be funded under the fourth CSF, while another three are on the borderline. These areas account for 75% of the country's population and to date most of them were eligible Objective 1 areas, with acute and increasing social and economic problems which the proposed transitional 'temporary support' will only extend.
Greece is a typical example for another reason: the promotion and concentration of resources in certain areas, such as Attica, which exacerbates the wider regional problem of the over-concentration of the population in the towns. At the same time, while there is a great deal of talk about supporting remote areas, the ΕU continues without justification – and despite our repeated proposals – to exempt the Aegean islands from special treatment for remote areas, despite the very serious problems they face.
'Cohesion' and 'increasing levels of development' clash in practice with the policies which preach them, in that these policies serve big business. In practice, only divergence, marginalisation, unemployment and underdevelopment can be created."@en1
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