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4 Amendments of Göran FÄRM related to 2011/2035(INI)

Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Emphasises that cohesion policy must continue to focus on regional (territorial) cohesion and points out that the Lisbon Treaty added the objective of territorial cohesion to those of economic and social cohesion; affirms that this aim remains indissociable from the challenges of economic and social cohesion and stresses the advantage of the regional partnerships deciding on both the regional and social funds;
2011/04/20
Committee: REGI
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Sees macroregional strategies as affording a major opportunity to harness forms of trans-regional potential and adopt a joint approach to challenges stemming from the natural environment, e.g. in relation to environmental protection; considers that better coordination of existing support mechanisms can create scope for more targeted use of the EU structural funds; stresses that the Member States’ commitment is also decisive for the successful implementation of macro- regional strategies;
2011/04/20
Committee: REGI
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. DoubtsHas grave doubts as to whether specific operational programmes for functional geographical entities such as metropolitan regions or sea or river basins will yield additional benefits; is particularly aware, in relation to such programmes, of the absence of political bodies (including democratically elected bodies) with a sufficiently wide- ranging remit to implement them; considers that specific operational programmes also risk creating antagonisms within regions; takes the view that aid for functional geographical entities should instead be provided within the framework of the regional programme by which the entity is covered; calls instead for closer coordination of macroregional or natural- environment strategies at inter- governmental levels;
2011/04/20
Committee: REGI
Amendment 563 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60
60. Draws attention – with up-to-date figures in support of its contention – to the extremely severe financial consequences for cohesion policy11 of the accession of new Member States; emphasises that, from a cohesion policy point of view, the Union’s capacity to absorb new members would, on the basis of these figures, be severely overstretched; calls for use of the IPA to be extended to special preliminary forms of EU neighbourhood status or membership and reiterates its call for graduated cohesion policy arrangements for large candidate countries such as Turkey;deleted
2011/04/20
Committee: REGI