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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, having analysed the report by Mrs McGuinness, whom I wish to commend for her work, I should like to highlight certain points.
Firstly, it falls to us to ensure that the EU's rural strategy is formulated and interpreted as the benchmark for any Community policy or programme relating to rural areas. The Commission’s proposal, sadly, limits its ambition to the implementation of the future regulation on rural development and accordingly makes it impossible to integrate rural, regional and social development policies.
As regards the Lisbon Strategy, the rural strategy ought to make a greater contribution to socio-economic and territorial cohesion for all rural communities. Local conditions must be improved and supported, in particular by strengthening existing knowledge-exchange networks, or setting up new ones, and by improving the living conditions of rural communities. These conditions should not, however, encourage migration from cities to the countryside.
Mr President, I feel that citizen involvement should be encouraged and citizenship fostered. These issues are crucial to the construction of a democratic local identity in the areas concerned.
Lastly, the Commission should establish a forum for dialogue with the existing European networks and support their activities without undermining their independence. This would boost relations with the stakeholders on the ground."@en1
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