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"Madam President, I am pleased to see that the new rules on state aid no longer contain the deliberate and disgraceful undermining of undertakings in border areas of the Czech Republic, which Germany tried to foist on the Commission. The original proposal did not measure the difference in aid on the basis of GDP levels, but only on whether two different regions had state borders. This supremely discriminatory and inconsistent rule has been replaced, under pressure from Member States, by a different, rule, which one can say is at least consistent. The state borders between regions no longer play a role. The problem was supposedly solved by bringing in regions affected by the statistical effect of enlargement. This technical terminology is misleading in the extreme, however, in that it covers enormous differences in the development levels of individual regions. In the Algarve region of Portugal, for example, or the Lüneburg region of Germany, GDP stands at over 80% of the EU average, whereas in the South West of the Czech Republic the figure is only 60.5% of the EU average. Yet all of these regions will have a right to a virtually identical level of aid, which is neither fortunate nor fair, and which is certainly not in keeping with the spirit of solidarity. The new rules on national regional aid were also intended to strengthen the EU’s competitiveness and economic growth, and that is something that the Commission has not come close to achieving. The rules on aid in place before, which were workable on the whole, have been drastically watered down. There is no doubt in my mind that the new rules will lead neither to economic growth nor to the creation of new jobs."@en1
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