Lefteris Christoforou, MEP for the EPP, focused on the need to highlight the wealth of the EU's islands in his intervention in Monday afternoon's debate on islands and the EU's cohesion policy. The rapporteur of the report is Younous Omarjee, chairman of the Committee on Regional Development.
Our islands are the real, natural wealth of the EU, which the Union has unfortunately failed to highlight so far, because it has not managed to create an integrated European policy for our islands and to create sources of development, progress and prospects there, said Christoforou.
In addition, he noted that Cyprus could become an energy hub and a model for renewable energy sources and host a European organisation.
"The time has come for our islands to be at the centre of EU policies and to prove that our islands deserve a better treatment by the EU," he concluded.
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