Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-09-27-Speech-2-161"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-09-27"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Regional development2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050927.18.2-161"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-09-27-Speech-2-1622
lpv:speaker	lp:Guido Podestà2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ENVI (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-20--2006-12-31)3 member; IMCO (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2004-09-22--2006-12-31)3 substitute; AGRI (2004-09-15--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Forza Italia (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I share the positive assessment of the two reports that we are examining, which reveal the considerable differences that exist among our regions and show how these differences have become even greater with enlargement. Territorial cohesion is the basis for lasting social and economic cohesion. If we want to aim at having an area of growth, well-being, stability and justice that embraces all the 500 million inhabitants that make up the European Union today, it has to be a primary objective. If it is so difficult, however, to make more slowly developing regions progress, what will happen when events that are completely out of the ordinary strike one of these regions, events that may result from climatic factors, fires, floods or earthquakes? We have seen on our television screens what has happened on the other side of the Atlantic in highly developed areas like Louisiana or Texas. On our own doorstep we have the situation of the regions in Romania where the flooding of recent weeks has led to death and despair. If the European Union is not there when it is needed – because in actual fact, apart from a Solidarity Fund that hardly has any money available at all, we do nothing – if Europe is not there in those cases, when does it expect to be there? What can a Europe that has not yet reached agreement on the financial perspective, a Europe in which six governments of large countries are calling for further reductions in their financial commitments, promise to those countries and those peoples who have believed in the European dream? Well, I think we need to reflect on that, because that is what our fellow citizens are expecting and that is what we are duty-bound to do for our future and for that of our children."@en1

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