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I decided to support the Commission’s fifth cohesion report and the strategy for the post-2013 cohesion policy in view of the very real risk that the European Union will drop in significance over the next 40 years. At present, the population of the European Union accounts for around 8% of the world’s population, but by 2050 that figure will have dropped to only 5%. The EU will also become less significant in economic terms, mainly due to economic growth in China, from the current 20% to around 12%. In the face of this very real threat, the EU must turn its attention to the rapid development of renewable sources of energy and opportunities for the storage of this energy.
The EU must also take a united approach to issues such as external policy and security policy, the internal market, scientific research, energy supplies and securing raw materials. Cohesion policy must utilise the advantages arising from the functioning of an international network, and increase the number of small and medium-sized enterprises entering international growth markets.
In addition, the history of the individual European Member States means that our economic system is significantly more complex than Asian or North American structures. With a view to future challenges, we should define the concept of European added value in more detail and stress it more emphatically. When specifying this concept, we should in addition ask ourselves the following question: to what extent does cohesion policy really lend impetus to enterprises? We should link European objectives to regional development objectives. We need to continue the Europe 2020 strategy and concentrate on its outcomes."@en1
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