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Agenda
2000 is a document approved by the European Commission in July 1997
the objective of which is to outline the basic features of the European
Union in the first years of the next century.
Economic and social cohesion of the countries of the Union will
go on being the maximum political priority of the EU, but the current
focuses for structural intervention will be revised at the end of
1999 in light of the new realities like the challenge that the expansion
of the EU entails with the adhesion of new countries and the impact
that that expansion will exert on the policies of the European Union
or the full entering into effect of the third phase of the Monetary
Union. Agenda 2000 will review and determine, therefore, a new framework
of relationships within the Union for the period 2000-2006 in which
an important reorientation of the community structural and regional
policy is foreseen.
It is foreseeable that Gipuzkoa will go on being an area with a
high unemployment rate, strong industrial specialisation, a per
capita GDP slightly lower than the community average although Gipuzkoa
will have to manage in a new context.
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