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"I think we should actually be celebrating today. Parliament has for many years been advocating that we should not only provide financing for sham measures in the area of housing but that we should resolve to undertake genuine measures. A significant proportion of the EU population lives in tower block apartments. By developing these housing projects, we can tangibly improve the material circumstances of their residents and reduce the buildings’ energy consumption as well as creating and preserving jobs. The current changes are making it possible in my country to renovate 90% of the tower blocks, and this is at any rate an enormous step. However, as the funds will only continue to finance such renovations in urban areas, we cannot rejoice unreservedly. The impoverished population of rural areas, who are in greatest need of funding, are once again left to their own devices. As we do not wish in any way to jeopardise the tower block programme, which is important to us all, we have agreed not to submit amendments at this time after all. In return, however, we expect the Commission to include our recommendation in its package before the summer recess. The first and most important step towards effective and sustainable social integration of the most disadvantaged areas is to put an end once and for all to exclusion and ghettoes. Renovating settlements that have been set apart is simply pointless. Instead of renovation, reconstruction supported by complex programmes that create social employment is the solution. Dear colleagues, we will truly have cause to celebrate when, in the place of uprooted rural ghettoes, people working in newly created social cooperatives will, upon returning to their new homes, tell their children to study and strive because they can become anything they wish."@en1
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