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"Mr President, Minister, Commissioner, the long and lively debates we have had on the European Globalisation Fund ring in my ears to this day. Our fellow Member Mrs Bachelot, with whom I worked on this fund along with Mr Cottigny, persuaded us to take some extremely important decisions. And what do we see today? Barely 4% of the aid budgeted for this European fund was distributed in 2007.
You have already indicated, Commissioner, verbally and in writing, that you plan to revise the criteria. Is this revision of the criteria adequate to deal with the issues? No, it is not! When 96% of this aid is not being used, we really have to ask the basic question: is our aim in adopting this decision on the European globalisation fund appropriate? We face demographic challenges, as you said, and we face many economic challenges, given the reality of globalisation, of technology.
I urge you Commissioner, on this Globalisation Fund, not only to revise the criteria but also to look at the very purpose of what we are doing here."@en1
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