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"Mr Kelly, a specific budget is allocated to every country and every region and it is our joint objective to ensure that the budget is used in accordance with the criteria and the principles of sustainability and intelligent utilisation.
Our goal and also our job, which is part of the way we see ourselves as regional politicians, must be to help, for example, weak administrative bodies and bureaucratic organisations which are in need of development to increase their capacity and improve their ability. This will enable them to implement suitable projects which can then be subsidised and ultimately will allow us to guarantee the absorption rate.
On the subject of macro-economic conditionality, it is important to remember that this is a last-ditch measure. If the criteria of the Stability and Growth Pact are not met, there are requirements concerning the measures which Member States have to take. Generally, and this is what has happened in the past, the countries respond accordingly. Their efforts are not always successful, but the intention is there and they make an attempt, so this would not justify the application of macro-economic conditionality. This must be used when a country persistently refuses to apply the measures proposed by the Commission and accepted by the Council to improve the economic situation. There must be the option of a last resort which can be used in this case. However, I am assuming that in future, this will continue to be possible in principle, but that in practice, it will hopefully never be applied."@en1
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