Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-01-26-Speech-3-044"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-01-26"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Strategic guidelines/Legislative and work programme for 20052
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050126.6.3-044"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-01-26-Speech-3-0452
lpv:speaker	lp:Paolo Costa2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with Mercosur (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; PECH (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Uniti nell'Ulivo (2004-07-20--2005-02-17)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2004-07-28--2007-01-15)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; IMCO (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 chair; TRAN (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am also convinced that the construction and operation of the Trans-European Transport Networks can make a real contribution to Europe’s prosperity, including in the areas of solidarity and sustainable development. I am not so much talking about the effects on demand of the large amount of investment required to build TENs, which ought to contribute to an increase in economic growth. In the framework of the Lisbon Strategy we should already have solved all the diplomatic, design and funding problems and now we should be ready to translate the investment into spending. In reality, that will not happen. Solid European cofinancing commitments for TENs, however, need to be drawn up before the financial perspectives are approved for 2006-2013 and possibly for a time horizon including the period after 2013, up to 2020. While we cannot expect rapid effects on demand from implementing TENs, we can instead expect a real and progressive contribution to the effective creation of the internal market in the enlarged Union. Because of time and financial constraints, however, this result can only be achieved if the TEN implementation strategy is not left, so to speak, to the discretion of the Member States and to their local decisions, and to their ability or inability to cofinance the various sections and various projects. In fact, it is only in Brussels that the sections of the network can be identified. Their construction will have the effect of really creating a single market which is greater than others, albeit in the knowledge that the network effect will only be created with the completion of all the projects. All of this will only be possible if European cofinance is increased and, in certain notable cases, only if the Member States agree to an exceptional pooling of resources to construct TENs, which surely is incompatible with cutting the resources transferred to the Union by the Member States to 1% of European GDP. This possible increased financial responsibility of the European Union could also have the benefit of allowing a useful revision of the Stability Pact. Breaking the 3% ceiling could only be permitted if objectively linked to the above-mentioned infrastructures, as well as to research spending, and subjectively guaranteed by the executive Commission. It would be the Commission’s task to use the increased resources according to European priority criteria, such as making a greater contribution to unifying the market in the enlarged European Union, as I mentioned before."@en1

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