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"What does the rejection by the European Parliament of our proposals for a resolution on the future of EU cohesion policy mean? These proposals underlined that:
structural policy must have, as its primary and principal objective, the promotion of real convergence, by acting as an instrument of redistribution to the least developed countries and regions in the European Union;
the objective of reducing the amount by which the least favoured regions lag behind must not play second fiddle to territorial cohesion;
new Community financial resources must be found for new priorities, all the more so as the current Community financial resources are insufficient to meet the needs of real convergence;
there is a need to boost the Community budget in order to promote economic and social cohesion at EU level;
land management and planning are the responsibility of each Member State;
measures must be adopted to cancel out the so-called statistical effect;
competitiveness must not be a substitute for convergence in those Member States and regions which are lagging behind in their socio-economic development, and cohesion policy and its associated financial resources must not be subordinated to the competition and liberalisation advocated by the Lisbon Strategy.
One possible answer could be that, at the very least, the proclaimed cohesion policy is actually at risk …"@en1
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