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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to begin by warmly congratulating Mr Musotto on his excellent work. I have expressed my awareness of the specific features of islands when participating in the negotiation process on the new regulations on cohesion policy as rapporteur for the regulation on the Cohesion Fund and as shadow rapporteur on the general regulation and the regulation on the European Fund for Regional Development.
I am well aware, therefore, that Parliament has recognised the disadvantaged status of islands and has confirmed that they represent a natural and cultural heritage for us all as Europeans. The European Union must be able to sustain and promote these areas, providing the resources they need for harmonious development while complying with the principle of territorial cohesion, allowing a more flexible implementation of policies on State aid and ensuring effective protection of special environmental features.
Special attention should also be paid to islands that are a long way from large population centres, which have great difficulties in accessing services, even basic ones, by developing an EU maritime policy that is able to establish stable economic and commercial relations with bordering countries.
I am very much in agreement with Mr Musotto on the need to improve transport connections and infrastructure – I refer to ports and airports – as well as the need to offset the greater costs, particularly energy costs, that result from their geographical locations. I find the rapporteur’s proposal to set up a European coastguard body to monitor the external borders of the European Union an interesting one, since one of the problems from which our islands suffer most of all is illegal immigration via the sea.
In conclusion, I would like to say that I endorse Mr Musotto’s excellent proposal to designate 2010 as the European Year of Islands."@en1
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