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"Commissioner Füle, I agree with my fellow Members, like Mr Brok who spoke before me, who say that cross-border cooperation has considerable potential. I was a member of the national Parliament from a constituency on the Hungarian-Serbian border for almost 15 years, or, to be exact, my work brought me close to this area. I know first-hand that cross-border cooperation has a great deal of potential. There is a basic contradiction, namely that despite Hungary’s EU membership, regional cooperation within the European Union provides very little opportunity for cooperation between Hungary and Vojvodina, this particular province of Serbia. There is a fundamental contradiction, Commissioner Füle, which has been discussed today: states such as Serbia, which would like to accede to the European Union, can no longer be part of this framework, while on the other hand, it is extremely important for us to bring the Western Balkans closer, to cooperate with Western Balkan countries, to facilitate cooperation between Romania and its Western Balkan neighbours and between Hungary and its Western Balkan neighbour, Serbia. Therefore there is a priority problem here, and I fully agree with Mr Brok that the strategy of the entire policy should be reviewed. As a Czech, you are very familiar with the central part of Europe, the Balkans and Eastern Europe, our eastern neighbours. This has a great deal of potential. This is very important for the issue of ethnic minorities, as Mr Brok pointed out. Cross-border cooperation is not only necessary because it is the only way to solve certain environmental pollution issues, and this applies to the Baltic states, the countries along the Danube and the Black Sea region. It is also important to interethnic relationships, for instance where ethnic minorities living in a different country are concerned. In the case of Hungary, this involves for instance the relationship of the 180 000 Hungarians living in Ukraine and Hungary, or the relationship between the Ukrainians living in Hungary and Ukraine. The same applies in the case of Vojvodina and the Serbs. Regional cooperation has a significant potential to stabilise the region, but we are not exploiting this opportunity yet. I would like to ask Mr Füle, and I have complete confidence in him, to review the earlier concept in this respect, and I trust we will have a much broader neighbourhood policy in the future, which will better promote the interests of the European Union."@en1
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