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"Cohesion policy is a vital tool in achieving the Lisbon Strategy objectives. At the same time, cohesion policy is an issue of genuine relevance to citizens, making Europe tangible and visible across the EU. The current debate on the ‘contours’ of post-2013 cohesion policy is therefore of special importance in the context of the economic, social and institutional crisis that we are going through. In the context of this debate, the European Commission and the Committee on Regional Development came out in favour of the creation of an intermediate category between Objective 1 and Objective 2 for regions with per capita GDP between 75% and 90% of the EU average. Convinced that this measure would enable regions with similar levels of economic development to be treated equally and prevent injustice due to threshold effects, I supported it during the vote on this resolution in plenary. Though this measure would not entail any additional expenditure, as it simply involves the readjusted distribution of current funds, several French regions – and also Spanish, Belgian, UK, German and Italian – could benefit from it."@en1
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