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From a country’s perspective, territorial cohesion means combating inter-regional economic and social disparity and combating the cluster effect; in other words, promoting harmonious and homogenous development throughout a country’s territory. In this context, territorial cohesion encompasses economic geography and forms part of the objectives of any structural policy. Its inclusion at Community level alongside the objective of economic and social cohesion is only significant because for some people it underpins the federal notion of an EU ‘State’ as a territory.
We therefore feel that the report ought to focus on regional disparities within each Member State, which are currently either showing no sign of improvement or worsening. The report should also be looking into the need for new policy to combat, rather than encourage, these disparities, which entails promoting public services, developing production apparatus, guaranteeing basic infrastructure (transport, communications and energy), ensuring that there is a large network of small and medium-sized holdings and establishing a support strategy for small and medium-sized urban centres in interior, rural and outlying regions. For this to happen, better resources must be made available and a genuine cohesion policy put in place.
We therefore regret the fact that our proposals were rejected."@en1
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