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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would briefly like to say that if we want to provide citizens with good and efficient management of the Union’s resources, it would seem sensible to take advantage of the experience we have gained over the years with the financial framework in force. What lessons can we draw from this, ladies and gentlemen? That we cannot continue with methods that result in such a massive failure to implement funds. We could also talk about mistakes in provisions or shortcomings in implementation. The truth is that we are talking about the consequences of a structural fault, as our colleague Mr Podestà so rightly said.
Year after year our Group places an emphasis on reforming the working methods in order to achieve greater efficiency, transparency and flexibility in budgetary policies, because that is, to a large extent, what is required for citizens to have confidence in the European plan. Therefore, when we see public debates on financial balances, we know that something is being done wrong.
Parliament has also shown that it wants and demands a European administration fit for the twenty-first century but, at the same time, we demand efficiency, monitoring and transparency.
The budget for next year faces old and new problems that we have to solve, and solving those old and new problems requires, above all, that we use common sense in our decisions. Restricting spending is common sense, as is demanding that the Council curb the increase in administrative costs. It is also common sense that, if we advocate Community agricultural and fisheries policies, financial decisions should comply with the true meaning of those words and that the institutions should honour their commitments. Therefore, the budget for 2003 should fund the second stage of restructuring the Community fleet affected by the expired fisheries agreement with the Kingdom of Morocco.
Ladies and gentlemen, I sincerely believe that there is room for negotiation and consensus, and I hope that, for the benefit of all, a good result will be achieved in the next round of negotiations. In order to do this, all we need to do is to be guided by common sense."@en1
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