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"Madam President, the situation in countries neighbouring the European Union is changing, and is changing dramatically. Our policies should therefore also be amended in line with those changes; they need to evolve. New governments and new structures are being established in North Africa. East of the European Union, unfavourable changes are taking place. There, democracy is dying or has never existed. The Belarusian authorities have no respect for human rights, while in Ukraine, these values are being neglected.
Consequently, the European Union has to change its point of view. We need to increase cooperation at regional level. Local authorities have a better understanding of how the programmes of the European Union should be used for the benefit of its citizens. This is why we should strengthen cross-border cooperation and make full provision for the border regions in our regional development and neighbourhood policies. Union funds should be moved from central national budgets to regional programmes. In this way, they will not be held hostage to national policies, which do not always work and often do not develop as we would wish."@en1
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