Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-07-02-Speech-2-023"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-07-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Budgets 2002 and 20032
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020702.1.2-023"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-07-02-Speech-2-0242
lpv:speaker	lp:Gianfranco Dell'alba2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; AFCO (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; BUDG (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; NA (2001-10-03--2004-07-19)3 member; CONT (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Presidents (2002-01-15--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Lista Emma Bonino (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it is a pity that representatives of the candidate countries or even more of the public are not here today, for they would realise the peculiar nature – for lack of a better expression – of this joint debate. Indeed, as many speakers have observed thus far, on the one hand, Parliament and the Commission are asking us to mobilise the flexibility instrument to cover what is ultimately run-of-the-mill, if excessive, expenditure, which means drawing on our last reserves – in terms of covering the expenditure for heading 5, when I consider that we are in a building which we really do not need, I think to myself that that may well be an area in which savings could be made – and, on the other, that we are preparing to make a gift to the Ministers for Finance of our countries, who are in great need of it, of at least EUR 14 billion of unspent funds which, very often, they themselves have failed to use. ‘You can’t fool us!’, as a great Italian comic used to say. In other words, we cannot continue along this path, saying in European Summits that we do not have the money to finance enlargement, reaching the lowest implementation level of recent years, as Mr Virrankoski said, with a ridiculous figure compared with the ceilings fixed in Edinburgh and elsewhere, and then finding ourselves in this situation. I feel that it is on this that our effective credibility will depend in forthcoming years. If the States feel they need the thousands of billions of euro that we return to them each year, that is a worrying, but it is just as worrying that a situation such as this should arise. This is what I wanted to emphasise in this debate in which both the Commission and Parliament have a back seat. The message is chiefly for the Council."@en1

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