Brussels, 17/07/2007 (Agence Europe) - During a plenary session on 12 July in Strasbourg, the European Parliament adopted the own initiative report of Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg (PES, Poland) on the role and effectiveness of cohesion policy in reducing disparities in the poorest regions of the EU. The EP calls for resolute action to reduce the most acute development shortcomings in the regions in question, and underlines that the new member states that have joined the EU since 2004...