Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-03-15-Speech-4-025"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-03-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Regional policy (islands and natural and economic constraints) (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070315.3.4-025"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-03-15-Speech-4-0262
lpv:speaker	lp:Margie Sudre2
lpv:spokenAs	member; REGI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 member; PECH (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 unknown; Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; PETI (2007-02-13--2009-07-13)3,3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-08-31--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-10-14--2009-07-13)3,3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, on the basis of Article 158 of the Treaty and of the Declaration on island regions annexed to it, the European Union takes into account the handicaps and constraints suffered by these regions in adopting specific measures to encourage the integration of European islands within the internal market. However, Mr Musotto, whom I thank for supporting my amendments in the Committee on Regional Development, has good grounds today for questioning the European Commission about the actual implementation of these provisions. First, I should like to remind you that the concepts of ultraperipherality and of insularity are completely separate, whatever the ties of proximity or of solidarity that unite them, since the main characteristics of the outermost regions are their great distance from the European continent and their belonging to a geographical area that is composed, for the most part, of ACP countries. Insularity constitutes both a geographical and cultural advantage that represents a potential to be developed within an appropriate development strategy and a permanent handicap that causes extra difficulty for the competitiveness of these regions. The principle of territorial cohesion, which was strengthened in the Structural Funds Regulations for 2007-2013, must aim at the polycentric integration of European Union territory so as to give all regions and their people equal opportunities. In addition to the measures that you have mentioned, Commissioner, I would ask the Commission to further integrate the possibility afforded by the Treaty in terms of adjusting Community policies that could have negative repercussions for the economic and social development of these regions, in order to solve in practice the problems that specifically affect every island region or group of regions. In conclusion, I think we should congratulate ourselves for holding this debate at a reasonable time and not at 11 p.m., as is too often the case, Mr President."@en1

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