Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-09-27-Speech-2-146"

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dcterms:Date	"2005-09-27"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Regional development2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050927.18.2-146"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-09-27-Speech-2-1472
lpv:speaker	lp:Kyriacos Triantaphyllides2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2007-03-14)3 member; REGI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Anorthotiko Komma Ergazomenou Laou - Aristera - Nees Dynameis (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; LIBE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2007-03-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I am delighted that we have the opportunity today to debate and vote on two important reports on the regional policy of the Union. I should like, if I may, to focus my attention on the report by Mr Guellec on the role of territorial cohesion in regional development. My colleague's report has, in my opinion, one very important paragraph: I refer to paragraph 3, which states that Parliament calls for 'regional development to be founded on programmes which guarantee equality of treatment between the EU's territories, while preserving their diversity, which notably implies appropriate accessibility of services of general interest and services of general economic interest'. What services of general interest are we talking about today? The services which the European Commission insists on liberalising? How will these services continue to be services of general interest and how will they help territorial cohesion? To give you a spectacular example, I am sure that you know that Greece, on the basis of Community legislation, will shortly be privatising its national airline. I wonder to what degree this will help territorial cohesion, knowing the peculiarities of the Greek state. How can a private individual replace the state as a general interest service provider? Obviously, we are proceeding with a firm step, in this instance, towards both the decline of the citizens in outermost areas who expect a service of general interest, and of the workers who risk finding themselves unemployed in the Community of the future. We are also discussing territorial cohesion here at a time when, in Brussels, the governments of the Member States can hardly even agree on the financial perspectives, with the result that the Member States will be in for a few surprises. So let us not bury our head in the sand. Territorial cohesion is desirable but on the right bases, bases which relate to social opinion, not on the basis of market pressures."@en1

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