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"Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner Schreyer, Mr Fischler, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to begin by welcoming the fact that we are holding this new budgetary debate, which has already shown itself to be a useful and profitable experience for the Commission and Parliament. It is a good opportunity which we Members of the European Parliament are grateful for and take a very positive view of.
From a general point of view, this is the year in which we should avoid the conflict between national and Community interests. The principles of budgetary austerity in national budgets, which are at the root of the Stability Pact, must be reconciled more than ever with the complete implementation of the Community policies contained in the objectives of the Community budget.
It is perhaps we, as Members of the European Parliament, who have the greatest interest in the Stability Pact being complied with and respected. Compliance with it must not be an excuse to interfere in the development of the great areas of expenditure of the Union’s budget, but it must be another incentive to improve its implementation.
Providing our budget with sufficient payment appropriations does not mean failing to comply with the austerity objectives, but to help the European Union’s growth by means of its policies. Otherwise we would be preventing the correct absorption of the leftovers or hindering the efficient implementation of the structural policies.
The Union’s best budgetary policy is not one that allows for a high budgetary expenditure, but one which implements the commitments in the Budget well. We would therefore like to ask the Commissioner whether she agrees with this approach and whether the Commission believes that the level of payment appropriations in the Council’s draft budget is sufficient.
On the other hand, our group has no particular reasons to disagree with the Council on this Budget. We would like, and this will be agreed in the sectoral debate, to go further into certain questions of agricultural or internal policy.
In external policy we are still seeking a more active role for the Union in the world, because that is also part of the programmed objectives of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats. This must be seen not only in relation to the strengthening of the common foreign and security policy – both its objectives and its budgetary appropriations – but to particular reconstruction actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, as part of the European Union’s moral commitment to promote peace, security and human rights. We would therefore like to know, Commissioner, whether there is really sufficient room in the budget to be able to take account of the approach taken by the PPE by means of its amendment."@en1
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