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"en.20110705.34.2-499-500"2
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"Political cohesion is something without which the European Union – as we know it and as we would like to know it – would not exist. This report, however, does not understand coherence, and thus cohesion, altogether correctly. The report draws attention to the threat of the EU losing its demographic and economic importance by 2050. On the basis of this ‘threat’ it states that ‘If the European community of States wishes to compete economically and politically, and if this relative decline in significance is not to be accompanied by a loss of prosperity, the community must act in a more concerted manner with regard to vital issues on which it needs to secure its future’. In my opinion, it is not for these reasons that the community should act in a concerted manner – the purpose of cohesion policy should not be to maintain the global economic positions of the EU or to compete with the rest of the world. The purpose should be the cohesion of nations and the development of a sense of identity among EU citizens, so that Europeans have the feeling that they are in their own country and that they are equal within the EU. EU cohesion policy represents a political approach which is unique in the global context, and which, in my opinion, must be promoted."@en1
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