The President of the Madeira Regional Government participated today in the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Peripheral Maritime Regions Conference Europe, held in Kotka and where they discussed various topics of interest to the Regions Member of the CPMR, with related economic, social and territorial cohesion policy; accessibility and maritime transport; and maritime affairs.
According to a statement issued by the Presidency of the Regional Government, the President of the Regional Government, as a representative of the outermost regions (ORs) in the Political Bureau, took the opportunity to “address and question possible solutions that can be found in the European Union for cohesion policy post 2020 “. Under discussion were the possible adverse changes in this policy, “and the main challenge to the reform of cohesion policy will be how its role, its objectives and its thematic priorities will evolve so that it can survive independently “.
in the session on ‘Transport and Accessibility’ was made note that, given that the European Commission adopted a strategy for the ORs, approved in June 2012, where one of pillars is to reduce the accessibility deficit of these regions, and inexplicably projects in outermost regions are excluded from the priority corridors of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T), in particular the Sea Motorways.
in Regarding the session dedicated to ‘Maritime’, Miguel Albuquerque was one of the speakers. At the sitting was treated the use of European funds currently available to finance the various components of the maritime space.
The President of the Government warned of the need to “safeguard the particular realities of our peripheral and maritime regions, of our Islands, and the particular reality and one of our outermost regions are taken into account in this context “and stressed the need for a strong link research with science and technology in the implementation process of the development agenda on strategy blue growth.
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