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] …and thanks to having good rapporteurs, we have managed to catch up. It now depends on the national governments whether the new regional policy can be launched in 2007. Their job is to make sure that the national development plans are ready and are based on consensus, and, especially in the new Member States, to make up for the lack of progress that we have seen in the past few years. They have not been successful so far, but they can achieve success now.
I welcome the fact that the series of ‘Christmas presents’ given to new Member States – at the time of the Council negotiations in December only for the purpose of acquiring votes – are now being made available to the EU-15 too. These benefits are now available to all Member States. I am pleased that Parliament has also found a way to support the systematic regeneration of neighbourhoods inhabited by the less well-off. In doing so, it has also managed to address the specific situation of the hasty, excessive privatisation of housing in a number of new Member States.
I support all efforts to ensure total transparency. Where assistance is involved, there is also the risk of corruption. Openness is particularly important in countries that had been controlled by a single-party system for decades, in order to avoid even the semblance of the governing parties continuing the management and money allocation practices of the previous single party.
Good laws are being drafted, but we must have a mid-cycle review of how successful the cohesion policy is. If required, we will be ready to make it even better."@en1
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