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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union is currently debating a compromise package for the 2007
2013 Financial Perspective. The Luxembourg presidency recently sent a proposal regarding spending cuts to the governments of all the Member States. If this proposal were to be adopted, total EU expenditure would fall by between 4% and 7% in comparison with the Commission’s original proposal.
It is plain for all to see that the aim behind this proposal is to weaken cohesion policy. A smaller budget would necessarily entail looking for ways to save money, and the Structural and Cohesion Funds, or in other words those targeted at the poorest EU Member States, would be hit hardest by such cost
saving measures. Regional aid, which mainly benefits the new Member States, is hence to suffer cutbacks as a result of pressure from the largest contributors to the EU budget.
It should not be forgotten that support for social, economic and territorial cohesion and solidarity between Member States are objectives that are enshrined in the European Union’s Treaties. We must be aware that it will be impossible to close the gap in standards of living which exists between the 15 old Member States and the new Member States, and which came about as a result of the post
war division of Europe, unless we adhere to the principle of solidarity within the EU. It also needs to be made quite clear that the cuts proposed by the richest countries are incompatible with the European Union’s ambitious post
enlargement goals."@en1
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