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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, no allowance has been made in the provisions of the European Regional Development Fund adopted to date by the European Parliament and the European Council for EU funding to be used to cover the costs of housing-related investment. Measures that do not qualify for funding under the ERDF include the adapting, converting or renovating of buildings for housing purposes, even though expenditure on such measures is a heavy burden on the budgets of the new Member States. Available figures show that over one third of the citizens of these countries live in high-rise buildings, which were the most widespread form of housing in the former Communist states, yet the condition of these blocks is deteriorating sharply. The standard of living of the people living in these buildings is dropping because there is no money to modernise them, and the buildings are also energy-inefficient and bad for the environment. The EU ministers with responsibility for building-related matters who met in Prague in March 2005 asked the European Commission whether funding could be made available in order to provide at least a partial solution to this problem. I should therefore like to ask how the Commission intends to approach this issue."@en1
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