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"We have voted against the report because we do not believe that it is sufficiently stringent in its criticism of the Cohesion Fund. The introduction of the common currency in the beneficiary countries of Ireland, Portugal, Greece and Spain ought, as a minimum, to cause the Fund’s activities to be suspended until such time as the first Southern and Eastern European countries have been admitted to the EU. Resources must be channelled to where there is most need for them – namely to the candidate countries.
What we miss, too, is a more thorough and critical analysis of the way in which the Cohesion Fund is fulfilling its objectives. There is a disproportionate focus upon maintaining the scales applicable between one country and another and between the two prioritised policy areas, and there is too little importance attached to whether the money is in fact being allocated properly. It is not enough merely to note positive socio-economic development in the beneficiary countries and in that way to conclude that the funds are being properly distributed."@en1
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