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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Community's strategic guidelines lay down the principles and priorities of the cohesion policy and suggest measures to allow the European regions to make full use of the EUR 308 billion appropriation allocated to national and regional aid programmes over the next seven years.
I should like to focus in particular on a factor that is decisive for the effectiveness of the cohesion policy: the quality of the partnership among all the local and regional actors involved in preparing and running the programmes. Strategies drawn up at the closest possible level to the citizens really must form an integral part of the efforts to promote growth and employment. The role of small and medium-sized enterprises, the need to fill local skills shortages, the importance of groupings and the need for local innovation centres are so significant that a bottom-up approach is crucial in most cases.
Involvement concerns not only the economic agenda, but also the more direct involvement of citizens through partnerships and the mechanisms of governance at various levels, in the context of which the cohesion policy is managed, in order to achieve the Union’s objectives of growth and employment. Closer cooperation between the Commission and the Member States’ authorities is crucial for drawing up a cohesion strategy that addresses Community priorities in a national and regional context and also for it to have a useful effect on the ground through an operational programme.
I also want to congratulate Mrs Krehl, who, with her usual competence, very skilfully stimulated debate on such an important topic as the subject of this recommendation.
I am pleased to note, Commissioner, that the strategic guidelines give due credit to the hard work done by Parliament over the last two years. It is a result that we consider to be highly significant and important. Indeed, they take into consideration important topics on which my fellow Members have focused and which have been examined in the relevant parliamentary committee and debated here in this Chamber.
To conclude, I hope, or rather expect, that my fellow Members will vote in favour of the legislative resolution and thus acknowledge all the hard work that has been poured into it."@en1
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