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"Mr President, I want to thank the rapporteurs for their work and say that they have found a decent consensus and produced good reports. I want to wish the new Commissioner well in her first budget and say that I sincerely hope that we can have a smooth and effective procedure in which all of us will do the best we can to produce a sensible budget in a most efficient way.
If there are to be problems – and sometimes there are problems – it will be around this whole question of the proposal to finance the shortfall in Category 4 with money from the agricultural section of the budget. This proposal is more likely to create psychological problems throughout the European Union in rural areas than real problems. We have to reassure European farmers and say to them there are regulations in place, those regulations grant entitlements to European farmers and there is no possibility whatever happens that those obligations can be denied by the European Union.
Nevertheless, we do have a fall in incomes. We did have a statement by the Commission for 2000-2006 and that set out certain perimeters within which agricultural spending would be provided for. Now we hear new proposals coming forward that if we have a situation of enlargement, we have entirely new proposals for entirely new policies towards the new Member States and without any provision as to how these will be financed. We need a little bit more clarity and there is tension building up between the institutions on this question of the Balkans. The sooner the Commission can propose to us clear figures for year-by-year spending the better.
I do not actually think that it is necessary to take any money from agriculture in order to finance a decent programme within the amounts of money set out – EUR 5.5 billion – considering what the obligations of the Union are, what the Member States will put up and what is likely to be called upon because of the situation in Serbia. So why generate a battle about some EUR 300 million that, in the end, I do not think that we will have to call down from agriculture?"@en1
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