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"The first amending budget for 2009 relates to the mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund for Romania, following the floods that hit that country in July 2008.
Faced with direct damage calculated at around EUR 471.4 million, it is (only now) planned to mobilise just EUR 11.8 million under this Fund, which once again clearly shows the urgent need for its revision.
The objective of this Fund is to enable the Community to respond in a rapid, efficient and flexible manner to ‘emergency situations’ in the various Member States. That is why, despite all the inadequacies, we support its mobilisation for Romania.
However, the EUR 11.8 million allocated will be deducted from the budget line for the European Regional Development Fund (Convergence objective). In other words, the ‘solidarity’ offered to Romania is being financed from funds intended for the least economically developed countries and regions, including Romania itself! This is what can be termed as solidarity between the ‘poor’ or, in other words, between the so-called ‘cohesion countries’/convergence regions …
We disagree with ‘cohesion’ funds being used – all the more so at a time of worsening socio-economic crisis – when other funds are available, such as those intended for the militarisation of the EU."@en1
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