Set your hand against structural policy, and you put the Community at risk.

On the jobs front, our structural policy must be to reduce working hours.

This is a threat to structural policy in the years to come.

So, we agree that the structural policies have to change many things.

You can hardly call that putting real structural policy into practice!

A third of the Budget will once again be devoted to structural policy next year.

In order to reach a position of power these days, it does not pay to advocate structural policy.

The public has a very ambivalent view of European structural policy.

I only want to make a brief comment on the structural policies.

The European structural policy may have proved itself, but it is in need of reform.

But perhaps the area where the biggest cuts have been made is that of structural policies.

We should not forget that the great debate on the future of structural policy still lies before us.

But we must squarely face the consequences for structural policy.

Regional and structural policies therefore face greater challenges than in the past.

Is it reasonable to continue to plan certain elements of the structural policies as has been decided?

Secondly, it is possible to act through the structural policies procedure.

Will funding continue to be allocated to the structural policies?

We need a change in structural policy, but this must not be made a condition for enlargement.

Making structural policy work also means involving women more.

The Union's structural policy plays an important role in supplementing development at national level.

It is likely that structural policy in those countries is also more effective.

Time will not allow me to elaborate on my third key point, which relates to structural policies.

The future of structural policy would therefore seem to be uncertain and will have to undergo significant reform.

In this way our structural policy itself will contribute to regionalisation.

Only in this way for example can we guarantee the financing of the Union' s structural policies.