Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-10-13-Speech-4-015"

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dcterms:Date	"2005-10-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The urban dimension in the context of enlargement2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20051013.3.4-015"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-10-13-Speech-4-0162
lpv:speaker	lp:Alfonso Andria2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and to the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2007-06-19)3 substitute; ENVI (2004-09-03--2007-01-14)3 member; REGI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; La Margherita (2005-02-18--2008-02-06)3 member; ALDE (2004-07-20--2008-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, right from the very start of this parliamentary term some of us have been paying particular attention to the subject of the urban dimension, and none more so than Mr Beaupuy. He was already doing so before the creation of the European Parliament’s Urban Housing Intergroup, of which he himself is Chairman and I a member, and which is working very well. I thank the Commissioner for supporting in so timely a fashion the approach we take to our work, and for encouraging it. She demonstrated her support yet again just now in her speech to this House. Parliament, it is clear, is today requested to make an additional commitment – which I think I can guarantee, and I speak for Mr Beaupuy too – to involve itself more fully, with a view to preventing any disastrous backtracking by the Council. Backtracking would only reduce the role of cities, a role which, in my opinion, is not only an essential part of cohesion policy, but also represents one of its central pillars. Cities are, in fact, the key players in regional policy. As well as being centres for the most complex issues, such as social exclusion and pollution, they are centres in which the futures of their entire surrounding areas are moulded, a fact I have also tried to assert in my role as shadow rapporteur on the European Regional Development Fund regulation. The driving force of a programme which sensibly invests and manages funds earmarked for cities can, and must, give a similar economic and socio-cultural boost to suburbs and surrounding rural areas, especially in the light of the recent enlargement of the European Union. That is why I believe that today we need to engage even more with this subject, based on the experience that this Parliament has already acquired."@en1

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