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"Mr President, I would like to congratulate Mr Cadec on his initiative, because it has come at a good time. Commissioner, thank you for your initiatives on developing a maritime strategy.
On close examination of this paper, it seems to me that our role is, above all, to address the things that we could together be doing better. I totally understand the point that we are not seeking to build new structures. In fact, coastal regions, and anyone who is involved with this issue in the individual Member States or is working on this issue with other Member States, should take up that policy and ensure that we do not end up with a new administrative level, somewhere between the European Commission, the European Union and Member States. It is important to make that preliminary remark.
However, let us look at the disparate things that maritime policy encompasses – here, I am thinking of transport, and of all the new methods that are relevant in that respect, the environment, the economy and, indeed, you have talked about sustainable development, the EU 2020 strategy, the energy challenge and, of course, the revision of our positions on fisheries. All those things together underline the necessity of supporting the opportunities and potential of the Atlantic coast. May I add another point to this? In this House, I help represent the Netherlands, one of our Member States. We have now addressed the Baltic, the Atlantic Arc, the Danube and the Mediterranean, and what remains to be covered? A coastline strip of Norway, the Netherlands, a chunk of Germany, Denmark, in short, the North Sea. Now, my question to the Commissioner is: if you want to work with macro-regions geographically, should the next step not be accepting and addressing this? One more sentence to conclude, please. At the end of this week, the CPMR [Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions] Committee on the North Sea will be meeting. It will be putting forward that proposal in Middelburg. Could you just comment on that?"@en1
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