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"Scientific and technical development, and civilisation’s achievements over the last century, enable progress that poses us a series of new possibilities and challenges. However, at the level of the EU institutions, this progress has been used as a pretext for imposing steps backwards; in other words, to threaten the rights and victories of the workers and peoples, like public and universal social security systems. Many of the challenges have gone without the proper response, whether at the level of cohesion policy, of regional development, of combating desertification, or of strengthening and diversifying public services.
This report tackles the important issue of using the Structural Funds – specifically, the European Regional Development Fund and the European Social Fund – to confront some of these challenges, particularly in the countries and regions suffering most from ageing and depopulation. Increasing the absorption of these EU funds is all the more important when we realise that many of these countries and regions are confronted with unacceptable programmes of so-called austerity, which are squeezing investment levels to the point of penury, so preventing the full use of these funds by those who need them most and at a time when they are most needed."@en1
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