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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-04-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Regional policy2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050412.32.2-345"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-04-12-Speech-2-3462
lpv:speaker	lp:Kyösti Virrankoski2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007-2013 (2004-10-14--2005-06-08)3 member; AGRI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; ALDE (2004-07-20--2007-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2006-12-31)3 member; BUDG (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with Japan (2004-09-21--2007-03-13)3 member; CONT (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Suomen Keskusta (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, the regional and structural policies of the EU are based on Article 158 of the EC Treaty, which states that the Community will pursue its actions to strengthen economic and social cohesion. The Article is the EU’s life insurance policy. It endeavours to guarantee that all regions benefit, that the ‘win-win’ principle is established. It justifies the very existence of the entire EU. Should certain regions or population groups repeatedly find that they are excluded from general development, the consequence would be disintegration of unity in the EU. When the last ten new Member States joined the European Union, its population grew by over 20%, but GNP increased by only 5%. For historical reasons, the GNP per capita in all new Member States was somewhat clearly below the EU average. That is why the regional and structural policies of the EU must be targeted at the new Member States, and for that reason all new Member States are initially net gainers. In the financial perspective and in the plans of the Commission, a significant amount of investment has been allocated to the new Member States, and after a few years they would jointly receive more regional and structural policy funding than the old Member States. This trend must be considered absolutely the correct one. There is the danger, however, that the weakest regions in the EU will lose out on regional and structural policy measures. In absolute terms, nevertheless, they will not have become more prosperous or developed in any measure, even though regions even weaker than they have joined the Union. There is a risk, therefore, that the weakest regions in the EU will have to pay more for enlargement than the wealthiest regions, because their contribution to the EU budget is in relation to their GNP, and, in addition to that, they are losing funding they have received from it. This would seem to apply to the EU’s sparsely populated northern regions in particular."@en1

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