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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we must look at all the factors in the analysis
that compelled both the European Commission and Parliament to discuss this major issue, and I am referring here to the processes that have led to enlargement. A few years ago, I submitted a document to President Prodi on the relationship between enlargement and the repercussions that it would have in certain regions of our Community, in particular in southern Italy. Since the war, we have witnessed a strange phenomenon: whilst, previously, history revolved around hostility between East and West, now, as if by a strange twist of fate, we are dealing with a European Community where the problems are between North and South, and always between a rich and prosperous North and a poor South.
Therefore, enlargement has been a factor in our considerations, and our conclusion is that a war between the poor must be avoided, given the consequences of such an occurrence. I am writing a report on European public finances in 2003 and it shows that we are facing problems of increased GDP in some countries and falling GDP in others. Even countries that, a few years ago, more or less balanced their budgets, now find themselves near to negative projections.
How, then, should we manage these Structural Funds? The rapporteurs do well to give broad guidelines in their reports. I believe that we need to ensure that Objective 2 is not too all-embracing; we need to ensure that the Member States can manage Structural Funds that have been obtained in the first stage properly and coordinate them more effectively in the next stage."@en1
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