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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is in my capacity as a representative of the largest new Member State, Poland, that I take the floor in today’s Question Time to the Commission on the Financial Perspective for 2007-2013. I am emphasising this as most of the honourable Members who have taken the floor in this debate hail from the old Fifteen, and their views on the Financial Perspective for 2007-2013 are very much at variance with those held by the new Member States.
The first problem I would like to highlight is the size of the budget for the period in question. The six so-called net contributors argue for 1% of GDP, whereas the Prodi Commission proposed 1.14% of GDP. According to estimates, in absolute terms this amounts to a difference of about EUR 180 billion, which means around EUR 25 billion less for each year of this Financial Perspective. This is an enormous sum from the point of view of the new Member States. It is a sum that is absolutely essential to reduce the differences in development between old and new Member States, and to ensure that the division into a first and second class Europe does not become permanently entrenched.
The second problem I should like to refer to concerns the resources for Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund. I refer in particular to their allocation to regions in the old Union affected by the ‘statistical effect’. The Commission is showing remarkable generosity towards these regions. There are plans to allocate no less than EUR 194 billion to them over these next seven years, but only EUR 181 billion to regions in the new Union. It should be borne in mind that this period will see the accession of at least two new Member States, and that the whole of the territory of the 12 new countries is eligible for support.
The third problem I wish to mention concerns limiting resources from the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund to 4% of the GDP of the Member State in question. For the ten new Member States this means an annual total of less than EUR 20 billion. I believe it would be appropriate to raise the threshold to at least 5% of the GDP of the Member State.
I very much hope the Commissioner will take the three concerns I mentioned into account."@en1
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