European Parliament
Göran Färm, Anna Hedh, Olle Ludvigsson, Jens Nilsson, Marita Ulvskog and Åsa Westlund  (S&D
),
in writing.
(SV)
We Swedish Social Democrats in the European Parliament support the report on the evolution of EU macro-regional strategies: present practice and future prospects, especially in the Mediterranean. We have a positive view of macro-regional strategies as a tool for promoting the EU’s territorial cohesion and development. However, we do not support the wording concerning increasing the threshold for
de minimis
aid for islands, nor do we believe that the scope of the
de minimis
aid should be extended within the transport sector, or to also include the agriculture and fisheries sectors.

