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The European Union’s cohesion has been increasingly under threat from a number of sides, and there are even those already suggesting it will dissolve in the face of so many centrifugal forces. I do not share this pessimism and I believe that, if it is not separated from its core values, Europe will be able to emerge from this crisis strengthened. However, this is an extremely difficult task and threatens one of the principles that contributed to its initial success: cohesion. Without promoting cohesion, each part of the Union will tend to get caught up in its own interests, and to lose the notions of solidarity and helping each other that are so necessary in a political and economic area that wants to be increasingly integrated.
Cohesion policy has reduced many of the asymmetries between Europe’s various regions, but it is only fair to recognise that the disparities still remain very significant. If it abandons this dimension of solidarity and loses the idea of a unit that should guide its structural policies, Europe will lose an essential instrument for its construction and strengthening. I believe cohesion policy can contribute to promoting concrete results and to our having the necessary means to achieve them."@en1
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