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"Mr President, may I say thank you for your speaking English today. It is very welcome though it is not doing very much for my attempts to learn Italian because I usually like listening to you in Italian so I am split on this one. However, I would like to give this explanation on behalf of the British Conservative delegation.
This report does contain a number of examples of best practice and cohesion policy across the EU, but our delegation has a number of concerns which prevent us from supporting the report. First and foremost, the report calls for the cohesion budget post-2013 to be maintained at its present level. For our delegation this is unacceptable. Savings can easily be made by restricting funding to those regions and Member States which really need the funds.
The report also inflates the supposed importance of the bureaucratic European groupings of territorial cooperation. None of these presently exist in the UK and our government rightly sees no fruitful reason ever to introduce them. We also take a sceptical view of the support for the proposed EU macro-regional strategies, which undermine national governments and lead to the creation of artificial entities with little popular support."@en1
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