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dcterms:Date	"2005-02-24"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20050224.3.4-020"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Ivo Belet2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Christen-Democratisch & Vlaams - Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)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 member; ITRE (2004-07-21--2006-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (2004-09-16--2007-03-13)3 substitute; CULT (2004-07-22--2006-01-18)3 substitute; PETI (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I have two minutes in which to make two points and bring them together. As you know better than we do, Commissioner, the research programmes will have an even greater effect if you use them to build a bridge between, on the one hand, the research and development programmes under the Cohesion Policy, and, on the other, the Seventh Framework Programme. If the two instruments are brought into line with each other, they will be a great deal more far-reaching in their effects. Please allow me to give an example from my own region, which is bounded by the frontiers between the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium. Commissioner, the universities of Eindhoven, Louvain, and Aachen, as well as those of Hasselt and Maastricht, now cooperate closely in research, training and development, as well as in the field of cohesion projects. I believe that similar cross-border collaborative projects deserve to be followed and encouraged, as they primarily reinforce the regional dimension as part of the Lisbon process. Surely nobody can object to the towns, universities and regions within which they move and operate playing such a role? We were therefore particularly pleased to see the Commission accept an amendment to that effect proposed by Mr van Nistelrooij to the Locatelli report after all, which Parliament approved at the beginning of this week. In it, this House expressly requests cooperation with the regions and the coupling of, on the one hand, national programmes under the Structural Funds and, on the other, programmes under the Seventh Framework Programme. To sum up, Commissioner, businesses are, as you know, ready to invest and to anticipate the opportunities that are presenting themselves. If we in the EU, who deal with financial matters, now allow them to pass by, if our fine words about innovation policy are not followed up by action, then our credibility will, of course, be shattered – both yours and ours, I would say. We will then be giving national governments the ideal excuse for not coming up with the national funding that is so vitally needed. At the moment there exists what is termed a ‘window of opportunity’, with many members of government at every level – regional, national and, of course, European too – being convinced that we must drastically upgrade our investments in innovation. If we simply allow this to ebb away, then I think we will have to look among ourselves to find the reason why."@en1

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