Text tabled : A7-0084/2012

  Rareş-Lucian Niculescu (PPE), in writing. – (RO) No region in the Europe Union should be left out when the steps are taken to achieve the cohesion objectives. While the report we have voted on today refers to the outermost regions, we must not forget that some regions – located at the very heart of Europe – can be regarded as facing the same challenges due to extreme isolation, altitude, as well as difficult living and economic production conditions. For example, mountainous regions are just as disadvantaged as those located a great distance away from the mainland. This fact must be noted not only by the cohesion policy, but also by the agricultural policy, whose objective must be to guarantee an agricultural sector which develops harmoniously across the whole of Europe.