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The European Commission has proposed that cohesion-fund disbursements to Member States be made conditional on measurable progress toward digital-infrastructure targets. Critics argue that this conditionality will disproportionately penalise less-developed regions, which have the weakest existing infrastructure and therefore face the steepest improvement curves. The Commission responds that the targets are calibrated as percentage improvements from each region's own baseline, not as absolute thresholds. Therefore, the Commission concludes, less-developed regions are no more likely to miss the targets than more-developed regions.
The Commission's conclusion depends on which of the following assumptions?
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Negation test applied: if less-developed regions lack the administrative capacity to implement projects at the required pace, then even percentage-based targets become harder for them to meet—the Commission's conclusion collapses. Choice A concerns historical allocation shares, which is irrelevant to whether the new conditionality is equitable. Choice C would actually support the critics, not the Commission. Choice D addresses process legitimacy, not logical validity. Choice E concerns economic returns, which are out of scope for the equity-of-targets argument.