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"Mr President, this debate today is the culmination of Parliament’s work on the extremely important issue of cohesion policy, a policy that involves more than EUR 300 000 million, clearly demonstrating that we are talking about one of the European project’s priorities. Removing territorial differences, supporting infrastructures and the economic and social development of our peoples and regions have been the basis of this work.
We in Parliament incorporated significant changes into the regulations that implement this policy and that have considerably improved its content in terms of the environment, accessibility for disabled persons and the participation of civil society.
We have recognised the differences between regions within the territory of the European Union: rural regions, urban regions, islands, outermost regions, regions with falling populations, etc. Each of them requires specific initiatives.
We should be pleased about the implementation of a technological fund within the framework of the FEDER, with a view to closing the technological gap, as well as about the ‘phasing out’ in the Cohesion Fund, in order to move towards convergence, acknowledging that, though it is clear that countries with more needs require privileged treatment, there are other regions and Member States that need to make progress in this direction.
That is sufficient reason to support this policy fully. That is the only way we can make progress with the idea that more cohesion also means more Europe."@en1
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