Parliament likewise takes the view that the wider neighbourhood action plan (and hence the ‘European Territorial Cooperation’ objective of cohesion policy) and indeed the Union’s New Neighbourhood policy should be used not only to foster integration of the outermost regions into the surrounding geographical areas, but also to forge socio-economic and cultural ties with countries where there are emigrant communities from outermost regions or to which outermost regions are linked by traditional bonds (Venezuela, Brazil, the United States, South Africa, Canada, and Australia are among the countries in this category), as this would be in the interest of both sides.
Parliament likewise takes the view that the wider neighbourhood action plan (and hence the ‘European Territorial Cooperation’ objective of cohesion policy) and indeed the Union’s New Neighbourhood policy should be used not only to foster integration of the outermost regions into the surrounding geographical areas, but also to forge socio-economic and cultural ties with countries where there are emigrant communities from outermost regions or to which outermost regions are linked by traditional bonds (Venezuela, Brazil, the United States, South Africa, Canada, and Australia are among the countries in this category), as this would be in the interest of both sides.