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"Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I should also like to congratulate Mrs Krehl on her outstanding report, which expresses Parliament’s concerns regarding the definition of Community strategic guidelines that should govern the application of the economic and social cohesion policy for 2007-2013.
I wish to say a few words on one issue that particularly concerns me, namely the risk that we run of subordinating cohesion policy to the objectives of the Lisbon Strategy. The risk is a real one and should not be overlooked. Otherwise we may to some degree warp the concept of solidarity and of balanced, harmonious development of the territory – concepts that lie at the heart of cohesion policy.
If the predominant factor of the Lisbon Strategy is competitiveness, we run the risk of channelling structural funds as a matter of priority to the least favoured regions with the greatest potential for development, to the detriment of regions with less development potential.
This is particularly true of the nine new Member States, whose territory is made up entirely of convergence objective regions. I therefore call for the necessary balance between competitiveness and solidarity."@en1
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