European Parliament
Alavanos (GUE/NGL ),
in writing
(EL)
The enlargement of the European Union is creating a new actuality in the regional policy of the Union, which is why there is a need, among other things, to:
- continue to distribute resources to regions in danger of exclusion not as a result of their actual progress, but as a result of the change in statistical conditions following the integration of the 10 new Member States of the ΕU;
- continue to provide transitional support to regions which have exceeded 75% on an actual, not just a statistical basis;
- reject the development of the nationalisation of regional policy as a result of the freezing of the budget at pre-enlargement levels;
- concentrate on underdeveloped and other acutely structurally disadvantaged regions;
- strengthen inter-regional cooperation;
- include the regional dimension in all EU policies.
Finally, the Mastorakis report includes worthwhile special proposals.

