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"The reform of the Structural Funds will not solve the problems posed by enlargement in the East; what it will do is penalise France.
Brussels, which has not calculated the cost of an enlargement which incorporates Eastern Europe, bankrupt after four decades of communism, will pay the new Member States EUR 190 billion in regional aid. Will these sums assist their economic integration into the European Union? The German failure in the Eastern states of the former Communist German Democratic Republic suggests it may not.
This concentration of regional policy on the countries of Eastern Europe will, however, have two unfortunate consequences for France:
It will reduce the already modest share allocated to France. For instance, Corsica and French Hainault, in the Nord Pas de Calais region, have not received Structural Funds, intended for Europe’s poor regions, for the last five years.
The increase in regional expenditure, which is now the largest item in Europe’s budget, will involve a reduction in agricultural spending, from which our farmers benefited, and an increase in the overall budget of Brussels and, therefore, in the French contribution to that budget.
More than ever, European regional policy, held up by the federal Europeans of the UMP and PS as manna for our regions, is proving to be an economic and social sham."@en1
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