Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-09-19-Speech-3-081"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-09-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Future of cohesion policy2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010919.7.3-081"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-09-19-Speech-3-0822
lpv:speaker	lp:Elisabeth Schroedter2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Bündnis 90/die Grünen (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegations to the parliamentary cooperation committees and delegations for relations with Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-12-16--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, cohesion policy is indeed the greatest challenge facing the Community in the context of enlargement. At the same time, cohesion policy will be the litmus test of whether stability can successfully be maintained in an EU of 27 Member States and, moreover, in all its parts. The tendency has, however, prevailed in the Member States not to assess the success of cohesion policy in the less favoured areas, but rather to evaluate success in terms of how much they end up getting for themselves out of each negotiation. Clearly, this must change from 2006 onwards! Stability and the successful development of an enlarged Union will be guaranteed after 2006 only if common objective criteria rather than the protection of possession constitute the precondition for the allocation of funds. This means that a new, common cohesion policy must be tested in its entirety against the old policy. The second report on cohesion contains some good proposals, but it perpetuates many of the cohesion policy's errors and is no radical programme of reform. I will say a bit more about the proposals. I think it right and proper that all regions of the enlarged Union should be assessed on an equal basis provided there is no simultaneous impact on regions which are currently being supported. So I wholeheartedly support the principle of phasing out. Increased decentralisation and the promotion of partnership must, however, apply also to the acceding countries in the accession funds – and right now – so that their authorities get some practical experience of them. Phasing-in the acceding countries into a decentralised structural policy as early as 2002 is also necessary in order to pool experience. Even in half measures, an integrated regional policy is the only thing in which donors, too, can have confidence. Quality must therefore come before quantity!"@en1

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