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"Madam President, this budget has just been described as nostalgic, catastrophic and historic.
I believe it is a sound, well-balanced budget and I would like to thank Mr Färm and Mr Stenmarck for their perceptive work.
I would like to draw your attention, ladies and gentlemen, to points which might seem minor but which concern Parliament’s use of its power of initiative. With due regard for the interinstitutional agreement and the Financial Regulation, the European Parliament is about to vote on new pilot project and preparatory action initiatives, which I believe will be useful for European integration.
The first point concerns preparing small and medium-sized businesses for enlargement. I feel this will be an important signal to industry which will make that network of small businesses which is so vital for our economies feel more involved. I am convinced that practical measures would have much more effect than a series of information campaigns.
The second initiative which I would like to mention concerns a programme known as ENEA, dedicated to the elderly, which seeks to repeat the success of the Erasmus and Socrates programmes in the context of the movement of the elderly. The innovative nature of this programme lies in the fact that it could develop as an interface
between culture, social policies and health and that, if Parliament endorses the pilot project, it will be providing the Commission with the opportunity to create a programme which will encourage dialogue between elderly people from 25 different countries.
The last point I would like to mention is the environmental initiative, which, by means of the funding of reforestation measures and the creation of a seed bank, will allow us to promote the mechanism for clean development laid down by the Kyoto Protocol. This project seeks to promote positive measures at European level to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere, while creating an operative structure for the collection and preservation of seeds and plants, many of which would otherwise be lost as autochthonous species
and the use thereof for the purposes of ecological restoration. This will also create employment, for the diversification of farming will certainly pose problems and require new goals to be set.
The Commission must, of course, now inform Parliament without delay of the measures it intends to take to comply with the recommendations of the budgetary authority if all this is to be put to the vote on Thursday and again in December.
I would like to thank Mr Färm and Mr Stenmarck once again for their work, and I hope that the Commission will continue to seek that close cooperation which we have enjoyed in recent months."@en1
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