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GREEN PAPER ON MARITIME POLICY FOR 31 MAY
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Mr. Borg, during the next CPMR Political Bureau meeting in Malta
our members will again focus on the issue of the Green Paper
on Maritime Policy. What can you tell us about this Paper just
one month before the final version?
We
are coming to the end of the first stage of the process towards
a maritime policy for the European Union. It has been an exciting
period during which we have tried to design a whole new approach
to Europe's relations with the oceans. We look at all maritime
sectors in an integrated manner and recognise how interlinked
they are. In the Green Paper, we suggest ways whereby Europe
can provide an imaginative policy framework that encourages
the various players, both in the public and private sectors,
to innovate, develop and diversify their maritime activities.
Providing the right environment would ensure that Europeans
benefit even more from the oceans, not only by deriving greater
income and wealth from them but also by better enjoying the
contributions oceans make to their quality of life. We are now
putting the finishing touches to our ideas and trust that they
will launch a lively and constructive debate.
2/
What did you most value out of the contributions made by our
member Regions?
I
am delighted to say that the coastal regions have, from the
very beginning, been very supportive of our efforts and we very
much value this encouragement. We feel that by staying closely
in touch with their thinking we run less risk of putting forward
ideas which are not grounded in reality. Coastal regions generally
have an acute awareness of the importance of the oceans in the
lives of European citizens and therefore have a role to play
in extending that awareness to people who live further inland.
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By
Xavier Gizard
It seems like a bad dream. Under the 6-month Austrian presidency,
two events of direct concern to Regions and Cities are being
organised without them, without any involvement of the European
organisations that bring them together:
- in April, a seminar on subsidiarity;
- in June, another seminar on territorial cohesion.
This is a step backward to the concert of nations at the Congress
of Vienna!...
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VALENCIA
REQUEST MORE MEDITERRANEAN TEN-TS
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By
Enrico Mayrhofer
The
Trans-European Networks - Transport represent enormous opportunities
for our regions in terms of economic development because infrastructures
contribute to the attractiveness of an area for investment purposes
and company set-ups or relocations.
Mr.
José Ramón García, Minister of Infrastructure
and Transport with Comunidad Valenciana in Spain, is concerned
about priority axis “19”, which corresponds to constructions
and technologies designed to integrate the Iberian Peninsula
into a Trans-European Network. This axis is increasingly losing
its importance...
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TRANS-EUROPEAN
NETWORKS - TRANSPORT:
A REMINDER OF COHESION AND THE MOTORWAYS OF THE SEA
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By
Patrick Anvroin
The
European Union’s draft budget for the 2007-2013 period
is currently being finalised by the Council, the Parliament
and the Commission. Without yet knowing the details, there is
already no doubt that the Trans-European Network - Transports
(TEN-T) will lose out as a result of some hard decision making.
The CPMR is taking action to ensure that the Motorways of the
Sea are not left on the sidelines and that the TEN-T continues
to assist peripheral and insular Regions, in accordance with
the objectives laid down for it by the Treaty of Maastricht...
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THE
CPMR AND EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AVOID EXCESSIVE CUTBACKS
TO THE TERRITORIAL COOPERATION BUDGET:
INTER-INSTITUTIONAL AGREEMENT OFFERS AN EXTRA 300 MILLION
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ByPhilippe Cichowlaz
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