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"Mr President, I too want to start by congratulating Mrs Buitenweg both on the report itself and on the way in which she has sought to accommodate and integrate different viewpoints. I welcome the emphasis she has put in the adoption of ABB because I believe it is critical to the future transparency of all the EU institutions and will affect how they will work. My group particularly welcomes the reference to the assistance statute and the funding for political parties. I also wholeheartedly support the emphasis in these guidelines on enlargement and the implications of decisions taken at Nice.
However, what concerns me is the piecemeal approach taken to date by all the institutions when looking at the budgetary implications of this topic. What is needed is the joint comprehensive strategy that this report calls for, encompassing all aspects of enlargement both in the short term and in the longer term. It is crucial that we fully anticipate and evaluate the budgetary consequence that enlargement will have on all the institutions, because if we do not we will have difficulty maintaining budgetary discipline and efficiency. We have therefore asked for each institution to present a strategy setting out how it sees the impact of enlargement on its services.
The strategy needs to be radical, especially in relation to interpretation and translation services, because this is likely to be the biggest area of growth: we could end up with a public service of something like 60 000 employees and that will hardly be value for money for the European taxpayer. That is why my group is very concerned about paragraph 12 which asks for figures to be included in the PDB before we have actually debated a strategy. That really is putting the cart before the horse.
Secondly, I have further concerns about the wisdom of including paragraph 19 in these guidelines because it asks for a full review of all the standing committees at the halfway mark in this Parliament. All this will achieve is greater disruption and confusion, and it goes against the level of planning we are asking from all the institutions elsewhere in the report. Therefore, I would urge our colleagues in the PPE-DE to withdraw these amendments."@en1
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