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The accession of ten new countries has presented the EU’s internal cohesion with one of its greatest challenges. It has exacerbated differences in economic development and regional economic and social disparities across the Union. Greater effort is therefore required on the part of the EU’s cohesion policy, which is currently undergoing a root and branch reform with a view to taking on board the impact of enlargement.
In a Union enlarged to 25 countries, the instruments of cohesion policy must be provided with the appropriate financial resources, which must in turn be distributed fairly among the least favoured regions, not only of the ‘new’ Member States but also the ‘old’ ones. This must be done in such a way that we can press ahead with reducing the gap between the levels of development of the various regions and the extent to which certain EU regions are lagging behind (the current ‘convergence’ objective), and with meeting the new ‘regional competitiveness and employment’ objective.
The recommendations tabled in the various reports submitted to the vote today, and particularly that of my Group colleague Mr Fava on the European Regional Development Fund, address these concerns.
As regards the allocation to these funds, we await with interest the Council agreement on the Financial Perspective for 2007-2013, which we hope will be equal to the new challenges facing the EU’s cohesion policy."@en1
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