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The European Union’s central aim should be to promote economic and social cohesion. As the Structural Funds are one of the principal tools for achieving that aim, they should be retained at their current levels. The rapporteur makes some important points, with which we agree, especially:
his opposition to renationalising structural policy, which is a central plank of European unity, and his defence of least-favoured areas, which should remain the Structural Funds’ number one priority;
his assertion that regions no longer eligible for Objective 1 as a result purely of the statistical effects of enlargement will not suffer from those statistical effects. Any pertinent measures should therefore be taken to avoid this injustice, without introducing funding cuts for these areas.
As for the rapporteur’s recommendation that the current minimum level of 0.45% of Community gross domestic product continue to be dedicated to the Structural Funds in the next period, the only problem is that this figure is clearly not enough to ensure economic and social cohesion, especially given the fact that enlargement will embrace countries whose per capita income is, on average, about 40% of EU levels."@en1
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