Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-09-24-Speech-2-150"
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as President of the Council, I am delighted to have been given the opportunity to attend this debate, in which Commission representatives are taking part, on the European Parliament’s 2003 budget. I am convinced that today’s debate will give Parliament and the Commission the opportunity to touch upon many important subjects relating to the 2003 budget. I again have the pleasure today of meeting Mr Wynn and the two rapporteurs for the 2003 budget, Mr Färm and Mr Stenmarck. I should like to begin by expressing my personal thanks for the constructive and focused dialogue on next year’s budget that has been conducted by Parliament and the Council to date. I also wish to take the opportunity of thanking the Budget Commissioner, Mrs Schreyer, and the other Commissioners for their really helpful cooperation. There is no doubt that the EU’s 2003 budget is a major challenge. The EU is to take up quite a few new tasks next year. Allow me to mention just two. The EU institutions are to prepare themselves for enlargement, and the EU is to assume responsibility for the UN police force in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Council, Parliament and the Commission are agreed that what is at issue here are political priorities to be adopted by the EU. For that reason, the budget procedure has until now also been characterised by a desire to find practical solutions and reach compromises. I am convinced that this fruitful cooperation can continue in the autumn, and I shall do everything in my power to help bring this about. I want to conclude by wishing the Members of the European Parliament, together with the Commissioners, a constructive debate."@en1
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