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"Mr President, as in previous years, this debate is characterised by two elements which we could describe as endemic. One relates to the general amounts and the other to the deficiencies in the rules on budgetary management. Our differences on each of the spending categories are clear and I am not going to go into the detail.
Commissioner, representatives of the Council, we need the budget to be an effective and credible tool which works for employment, for research, for support for small businesses and for the construction of a genuine area of justice and security. Parliament has shown flexibility and austerity in this procedure and it is therefore in a position to ask the Council not to be politically autocratic and to show unequivocal signs that it is prepared to negotiate. I trust that you will take advantage of the flexibility demonstrated by our rapporteur, Carlos Costa, whose work – as well as the efforts of the other two rapporteurs, Mrs Buitenweg and Mr Seppänen – deserves to be congratulated.
With regard to the resources intended for external Union action, we demand that this Parliament’s undeniable political objectives are guaranteed, and these include providing resources for areas which are essential to world balance, such as the Mediterranean and Latin America. In this procedure, the Commission proposes using the flexibility instrument to finance the restructuring of the Community fleets which fished in the area of the defunct fisheries agreement with Morocco. This decision is fair, technically correct and necessary. It deals with a very serious problem which affects employment and a key activity of many regions, and which arises in a context of crisis. We must remember that we are about to implement a new common fisheries policy which has been dogged by intolerable discrimination for decades when compared to other economic activities, from the point of view of internal market rules.
As for budgetary management, this Parliament has repeatedly condemned the Commission’s inability to put an end to the problem of the so-called anomalous RAL. In this respect, we have produced a good strategy, which our rapporteur has mentioned, which is closely related to the reform of the Commission. We must bear in mind that in the last three financial years very high payments were not used. We must therefore find rules which work, methods which allow faster implementation and rules which shorten the cycle of projects. As the last speaker, I hope that the Commission and the Council obey the evangelical maxim when it comes to paying attention and that the last are put first, not only in the Kingdom of Heaven, but also here in Parliament."@en1
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