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"The Budget compromise for the EU’s expenditure for the year 2000 which has been reached between the institutions of the Union is relatively well balanced and therefore welcome. What constitutes a success, above all, is the fact that a solution has been found to the question of financing the reconstruction in Kosovo. The previously agreed Budget framework is being maintained, and the same applies to the interinstitutional agreement. Reductions in Category IV – External Measures (principally Aid) – are now significantly smaller than in the Council’s original proposal.
It is, however, unfortunate that there is an inbuilt rigidity in the Budget negotiations which makes it impossible at this stage to redistribute resources between different Budget categories. This also applies in the case of unforeseen and exceptional occurrences in the world around us. It would, of course, have been more reasonable to have financed the reconstruction in Kosovo by means of reductions in categories of expenditure other than that of External Measures. We must ask ourselves what kind of solidarity we have with the world around us when aid to a neighbour is increased by reducing aid to other countries in need.
It would have been possible to achieve significant savings within both the areas of agriculture and of structural and regional policy, as well as within other areas affecting the domestic market, if the preliminary Budget proposal had been complied with to a greater extent.
In spite of this, we see the compromise as a solution which all parties can live with. We accept that a review of the long-term Budget framework may become necessary during the spring of the year 2000 when a more thorough and stable calculation of the costs of reconstruction in Kosovo and the Balkans will be available. It is important to combine Budget discipline with a flexibility which allows the European Union to act with solidarity in the case of unforeseen events in the world around us."@en1
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