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"Mr President, Mrs Haug is rapporteur in a novel situation. For the first time since the Berlin Agreement, negotiations will take place in the Council before first reading regarding a possible review of the financial perspective. My groups welcomes this development.
The Commission’s initiative is necessary in order to finance the Stability Pact for the Balkans. We also endorse the plan to earmark resources for Serbia in the post-Milosevic era. Due to the Council’s attitude in last year’s difficult negotiations, there is insufficient trust in political pledges without a financial picture to match. But although we agree with the thrust of the Commission’s plan, my group would probably have reached different conclusions regarding the size and distribution of the proposed reductions under the external policy heading. As it stands now, the civil society, i.e. activities by non-governmental organisations in terms of human rights projects, is proportionately having to foot the lion’s share of the bill, and this seems to me a recipe for disaster if we want to achieve stability in the long run. My group hopes that the Council is prepared to take a constructive stance and at long last to live up to its pledge to make sufficient resources available for new priorities, such as the Stability Pact, without causing lasting damage to existing policy, which is put on the back burner for reasons other than content. This request has not yet been met – or so it seems, which is detrimental. The EU’s credibility will be in the balance, and in my opinion, this is a bad start for the further development of the EU’s foreign and security policy."@en1
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