Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-02-10-Speech-2-186"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-02-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Broad political framework for the next financial perspective: Making Europe prosper – policy agenda and budgetary means for an enlarged Union 2007-20132
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040210.9.2-186"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-02-10-Speech-2-1872
lpv:speaker	lp:Kyösti Virrankoski2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Suomen Keskusta (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; CONT (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Estonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; BUDG (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the Commission’s proposal for a financial framework for the period 2007-2013 is right in its priorities, and I wish to thank President Romano Prodi for that. The EU is lagging behind all our main competitors in the areas of economic growth and competitiveness, and that is why financial investment in the prerequisites for growth is the right and necessary area of focus. Research, the encouragement of innovation and the adoption of high technology are promoters of growth. So is a high-level infrastructure. Investment in transport and energy networks will immediately create new jobs and strengthen business conditions even in remote regions and those where development has fallen behind. The EU, including its most peripheral areas, must be taken account of in this work. Similarly, investment in the young is crucial. Programmes of education and training must be extended and diversified for youth to be able to acclimatise more readily to an international working environment. Another problem and priority is Structural and Cohesion policy. The new Member States need support for reconstruction and for strengthening their economic environment. This cannot be allowed to happen, however, at the expense of the economically frailer regions of the old Member States. That is why the provision of funds has to be increased on an equivalent scale. If the development promised under the financial framework is to succeed, the administration has to be thoroughly modernised. The reform of the Commission carried out this term is only a basis for reforms. Power and responsibility have to be devolved both within the bureaucratic machinery and from the Commission to the Member States."@en1

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