Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-07-04-Speech-2-069"

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dcterms:Date	"2006-07-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:ERDF, ESF, Cohesion Fund (general provisions) – Establishment of a Cohesion Fund – European Social Fund – European Regional Development Fund – European grouping of territorial cooperation (EGTC) (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060704.5.2-069"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-07-04-Speech-2-0702
lpv:speaker	lp:Antonio López-istúriz White2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Partido Popular (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2004-09-16--2007-03-13)3 substitute; TRAN (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-08-31--2009-07-13)3 member; JURI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, this proposal from the Commission and the Council that we are debating today in this House at second reading is the clear result of our commitment to enlargement of the European Union. Nevertheless, I can and must express my concern about the fact that the requests from the European Union’s island regions that their structural problems be recognised have not been included. These problems result from the island regions’ geographical, natural and permanent conditions and special characteristics, which slow down their economic development. Declaration 30 of the Treaty of Amsterdam acknowledged that the structural disadvantages suffered by the islands should be compensated for by means of specific measures in favour of those regions, with a view to integrating them into the internal market under the same conditions as the other European regions, improving their access to continental markets and creating a territorial, sectoral and temporal balance in their economic activity. Nevertheless, in this case, once again, the specific measures necessary to compensate for the natural, structural, geographical and permanent disadvantages suffered by these island regions have not been taken. It is precisely the permanent nature of these problems that makes these specific measures necessary in order to alleviate and correct the inevitable extra cost of being islands. For all of these reasons, Mr President, I wish to condemn the fact that, in the drawing up of the regulations on the Funds, account has not been taken of the need to implement a more intensive cohesion policy in those regions suffering from these natural disadvantages, such as the islands. This has been done in the case of the outermost regions, which have been granted favourable treatment. What we are asking for for other island regions, although they are not so far away from continental Europe, are measures similar to those provided for the outermost regions. We are not talking about granting privileges, but about compensating for the obvious difficulties faced by our islands."@en1

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