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"Mr President, first of all, there is no doubt that the cohesion policy will be closely involved in the realisation of the EU 2020 Strategy.
The EU 2020 Strategy will respond to numerous global challenges, and the cohesion policy will be among the key and fundamental instruments at the disposal of the European Union and Member States to address these challenges. Therefore, concerns that cohesion policy will be detached from the implementation of EU overall strategy are unfounded.
Secondly, the Commission does not have clear answers at this stage to many of the questions and issues raised by honourable Members, such as on geographical coverage, the coverage or existence of Objective 2 regions, the appropriate funding base, transitional arrangements, or the status of individual groups of regions.
I admit this, but there is an ongoing vivid and deep debate among Commission services, as well as between the governmental experts from the Member States and the Commission. These debates will lead to the preparation of a fully-fledged Commission position in autumn 2010.
In the course of the coming months, the questions and problems raised here should find proper responses from the Commission.
Finally, I would like to thank all honourable Members for their questions and suggestions. They confirm the importance of the cohesion policy as an instrument of long-term investment in areas which are necessary for building the growth potential of European regions and Member States. I will take your interesting and valuable comments back with me to Brussels, and I will report about them to my colleagues in the Commission services and to my successor.
The Commission will be ready to continue discussions with Parliament related to the shape of future cohesion policy in the forthcoming months."@en1
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