Mercedes Bresso, President of EU Committee of the Regions (IT)Speaking at the opening session of the Open Days 2010: Week of the European Cities and Regions:
SOUNDBITE (in Italian): Mercedes Bresso, President of the Committee of the Regions:
"We are not naive, when the 5th cohesion report and its conclusions come out, if they assert that there will be cohesion policies for all regions as we hope, that doesn't mean that that is exactly what the result of the negotiations on the budget will be in the Council The finance ministers need to know right away that cutting the cohesion budget is not in our view an acceptable option. We need arguments which go above and behind simple calculations of net payments which can be supplied by regions and cities, whom have to implement the structural funds. Whom if not us can talked of experience and success based on, the EU funding, and there fore we can be hands on defending the results of that policy".
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