structural investments

A sustainable common market can be achieved faster by using investments in the area of cohesion policy and with structural investments.

It was finally decided not to carry out the major structural investments provided for in the famous Delors plan, of which we still have a vague memory.

This aim can only be achieved, however, through support for structural investments and is, consequently, unfettered by restrictions that could endanger these investments.

We must remain vigilant, to ensure that the operational programmes in our regions are sufficiently flexible to take account of structural investments, which are still necessary, and of social solidarity.

Due to the type of projects that it funds, LIFE is distinguished from the other instruments for research and development and support of structural investments that also contribute to protecting the environment.

Mr President, I do not wish to re-open the debate, but a number of delegates have explicitly raised some questions regarding structural investments using more TACIS funding, also in the light of the special democratisation process which is unfolding in Mongolia.

When both Parliament and public opinion were surprised at information published in the press, according to which an institution that we thought was involved entirely in structural investments had lost very considerable sums in short-term speculative operations, it became clear that there was a need to scrutinise the EIB' s investment policy thoroughly.