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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-07-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:2004 budget conciliation procedure2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030701.12.2-321"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-07-01-Speech-2-3222
lpv:speaker	lp:Joaquim Miranda2
lpv:spokenAs	chair; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-22--2004-01-31)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-01-31)3 unknown; Partido Comunista Português (1999-07-20--2004-01-31)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2002-01-22--2004-01-31)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-01-31)3 member; EUL/NGL (2002-03-06--2004-01-31)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, on the eve of enlargement and half-way through the financial year, cooperation before the Council’s first reading takes on special importance. I concur in general terms with a large proportion of the rapporteur’s quantitative analysis of the amounts suggested by the Commission in its preliminary draft. Even so, I want to take this opportunity to mention a deep and widespread concern at the fact that the preliminary draft budget for 2004 is the smallest, in relative terms, since 1987. It represents less than 1% of the Community’s gross domestic income, and I want to point out that such a low level of expenditure is utterly incompatible with the political ambitions so often claimed for the European Union. It is also incompatible with the ambitions which should be priorities in the current climate of rising unemployment and socio-economic recession. There is a logic of constraint, stemming in particular from the Stability Pact, with which we are not in agreement, just as we are not in agreement with the systematic budget reductions made perfectly obvious by the rapporteur’s insistence on the restricted application of the ‘N+2’ rule. The cancelling of authorisations and the policy of redistributing and anticipating expenses underpin this restrictive logic. These practices have not only become common: they also detract from the integrity and transparency of the budgetary process. That is why I can only restate the need for new financial approaches as one way of resolving this situation, which is totally unsustainable."@en1

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