Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-02-Speech-2-139"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-09-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030902.5.2-139"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-02-Speech-2-1402
lpv:speaker	lp:Sebastiano (Nello) Musumeci2
lpv:spokenAs	member; UEN (1999-07-22--2004-07-19)3 member; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Alleanza nazionale (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; AGRI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; PECH (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	". It must be clarified once and for all what is meant by disadvantaged when the term is applied to an island as such and not just to the outermost regions. This is a concept which has already been enshrined in Declaration No 30, annexed to the Treaty of Amsterdam, although I regret to say that the different translations of the document are extremely misleading. One way of boosting the development of structurally disadvantaged regions could be to make greater and more effective use of the Structural Funds. This depends, not least, on the provision of much more information, a more streamlined, flexible procedure and a more rigorous assessment of the quality of projects and interventions. I would therefore like to express my appreciation of the Pomés Ruiz report, which has the merit of portraying the light and the shade – more shade than light – of a situation which, with the basic premises having been identified, now calls for financial commitment, more courage and political will following specific recognition of ongoing structural disadvantages, the nature of which has thus far been wholly unclear. Hence the importance of a substantial change, of acting upon this recognition through the convergence of other policies. I would cite, in particular, the need to activate the appropriate derogations provided for in Article 87 of the EC Treaty on state aid, which are essential if we are to close an economic divide which has grown up and is the result, as well as of geographical handicaps, of the short-sightedness of the ruling classes, including the Community, over a number of decades."@en1

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