Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-12-13-Speech-1-217"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2010-12-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Territorial, social and economic cohesion - Good governance and EU regional policy (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"et"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20101213.20.1-217"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-12-13-Speech-1-9932
lpv:speaker	lp:Siiri Oviir2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3,3 unknown; Eesti Keskerakond (2009-07-14--2012-05-24)3,3 member; EMPL (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3,3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2009-07-20--2014-06-30)3,3 member; FEMM (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3,3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-29--2014-06-30)3,3 substitute; ECON (2009-07-16--2011-06-21)3,3
lpv:translated text	"I share the rapporteur’s opinion that the Union’s cohesion policy is one of the most important policies helping to increase the competitiveness of the region and to ensure sustainable development. As the international financial crisis had a negative influence on all regions of Europe to a greater or lesser extent, the cohesion policy, which provides added value, certainly has a very important role to play in ensuring that the regions can emerge from the lull stronger. The sad thing is that the governments of many EU Member States do not understand the role and importance of the regions – the local authorities – well enough, as they are afraid of losing their power to the regions. For example, the government of my home country, the Republic of Estonia, often adopts important laws pertaining to local authorities without taking the authority’s decision-making processes into account. In order that the various regions are not discriminated against, more attention should now be paid to the regulatory action taken by the Member States’ governments to make sure that their actions are not contrary to the Member States’ own laws and European values. It is true that there are now many regions of Europe which have obtained major political support through the European Committee of the Regions, the European Court of Justice and the Commission in cases where the Member States’ governments have ignored the rights of local authorities. I believe that an effective European cohesion policy and the fulfilment of the objectives set out in the directive will help to ensure the viability of the regions, but viable regions will increase the viability of the European Union as a whole and, at the same time, this will help prevent the marginalisation of border regions."@en1

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