Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-04-10-Speech-4-042"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-04-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The Green Paper on 'Adapting to climate change in Europe - options for EU action' (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080410.4.4-042"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-04-10-Speech-4-0432
lpv:speaker	lp:Lambert van Nistelrooij2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee (2007-05-24--2009-07-13)3 member; Temporary Committee on Climate Change (2007-05-10--2009-02-04)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Canada (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ENVI (2007-03-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2007-02-15--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2007-05-23--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ITRE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Christen Democratisch Appèl (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; REGI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, Mr Sacconi, ladies and gentlemen, as the PPE-DE’s coordinator for regional policy, I want to stress that some very important points are made in this resolution. A relationship is established between cohesion policy and risk management and there is the idea of the integral and explicit components of future regional policy in Europe. In addition, the regions’ position within the Union is altered by climate change. There will be drought on the one hand, and too much water on the other hand, with rising sea levels. The latter development is something that I must highlight as a representative of the Netherlands. Half of our land is below sea level. Marine dykes must be higher, but there are also many more technological challenges to consider. That applies even more to other parts of the world. It is also positive that we are looking to coordinate with the UN’s Strategy for Disaster Reduction. Cohesion – and I would refer to the Lisbon Treaty in this respect – has a new territorial dimension, which we must develop and which must be included in our financial programming. This is something that is close to the people, in the regions and in the cities, and Europe has a role to play in this regard. Mr President, the PPE-DE does not support the first part of paragraph 13, because at this time we are in favour of redistributing funds rather than reprioritising: it is already happening in fact. More than EUR 15 billion are currently being allocated from the Structural Funds to, for example, bio fuels, etc. We want to keep going down this route. We will thus once again be revising the Structural Funds Regulation in order to achieve more energy efficiency. That is the PPE-DE’s approach and we will take part in the debates on the long-term financial perspective – referred to in part two of paragraph 13 – and take the lead in possible reallocation or reprioritisation, but not at this time: that can be done more successfully by committing budgets and sectors than by redistributing at the moment."@en1

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