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"With today’s decision, the European Parliament is adopting the EU’s Budget for the year 2000. This is happening within the Budget framework established at the Berlin Summit in May of this year. This has been our moderate objective throughout the Budget process. Had a decision of a different kind been made, there would have been a risk of negative consequences for the EU which would have damaged the EU’s reputation. If it had been decided to introduce a new financial framework, there would have been a danger of this too proving expensive for the Member States.
With this Budget, the reconstruction of Kosovo will be successfully financed during the year 2000 within the Budget framework. Before the end of April, the Commission is to come back with proposals to finance the long-term reconstruction work in Kosovo and the western Balkans.
In the first reading of the Budget for the year 2000, the Council of Ministers proposed a 10 per cent linear reduction in category four. This made it possible to finance the unforeseen expenditure on Kosovo, Turkey and East Timor. In certain cases, however, there were less than welcome consequences for those Budget items affected by reductions. In a number of cases, these reductions were subtly modified in the second reading. This is the result of the Budget authorities’ jointly having set necessary priorities. We view this as something positive.
We are afraid that, at the same time as the needs in Kosovo demand sacrifices and purposefulness, many will want to expand the EU’s Budget and introduce new Budget items."@en1
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