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"I supported Ms Westphal’s own-initiative report because I believe that in order to stop current demographic trends and encourage people to have children, we must give the citizens of Europe hope. The reason for this is that a logical consequence of hopelessness and a lack of economic prospects is migration and relocation to more promising regions. However, the depopulation phenomenon afflicting several European regions could be reversed by following a targeted cohesion policy that takes into account intra-regional differences. We must therefore assess how sustainable a method of planning based solely on a GDP-based regional development indicator is when the overall picture it provides obscures the centres of poverty. Europe should pay increased attention to such micro-regions, and should assist them in participating in tender schemes and finding their way through the mazes of bureaucracy.
All this presupposes a far higher degree of flexibility on the part of the EU. It must focus on programmes that make micro-regions attractive again and create jobs. At the same time, I am convinced that as regards demographic issues, it is not cohesion policy that can deliver the main answers and solutions."@en1
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