Cohesion - the reduction of economic and social disparities between European regions - is a fundamental objective of the Union. Not only do these disparities hamper the functioning of the internal market and the EMU, and slow the growth rate and competitiveness of the EU as a whole, but they are also incompatible with the solidarity that underpins the movement of European integration...

Lambert van Nistelrooij MEP (Netherlands)
EPP-ED Coordinator on the Committee on Regional Development

PRESS RELEASES

08/05/2008	Desertification: Socio economic, agricultural & forestry impacts and their political consequences - Seminar May 15th 2008. Struan Stevenson MEP
14/04/2008	Adoption en commission du rapport Sudre sur la stratégie pour les RUP. Margie Sudre, MdPE
01/04/2008	Estratégia Europeia para as Regiões Ultraperiféricas/ European Strategy for Outermost Regions. Sérgio Marques MEP
07/03/2008	Regionalpolitik und Familienförderung. Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou MdEP
27/02/2008	Sérgio Marques apresenta Relatórios sobre Redução Fiscal para cerveja da Madeira e sobre a Política Marítima Europeia/ An Integrated Maritime Policy for the European Union. Sérgio Marques MEP

POLICY

Committee on Regional Development
The legislative package on Structural Funds 2007-2013
The debate on the future of cohesion policy
The Fourth report on economic and social cohesion
EPP-ED Hearing on the future reform of Cohesion Policy
Natural disasters – new Solidarity Fund
The EPP-ED in the Committee on Regional Development