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"Mr President, first of all, I would like to thank the rapporteurs, the Commission, Mr Wynn and the Secretariat staff, excellently led, as always, by Mr de Feo.
This budget, ladies and gentlemen, with which the Europe of 15 comes to an end, is historic because it brings us, at last, to a Europe of 25; furthermore, it can be seen as a pre-election campaign budget. The solutions that we found apply to everything and everyone. What I am concerned about in this case is what happens next, what I am concerned about is definitely the accession of ten countries. How will we cope afterwards? We must start thinking about this today, endeavouring to revise the Financial Perspective, endeavouring to inject new resources, endeavouring to thoroughly revise our procedure, because there will, inevitably, be some complications when there are 25 of us debating matters rather than 15: we need to start today, now, and not when we find ourselves in a state of emergency or urgency. I want to stress this point because we could have serious problems, irrespective of the political line-up.
There are three things I would like to focus on. Firstly, Iraq. There is a huge debate on the proposed amendment, but I do not see why there should be outrage. We have provided over EUR 1 billion for Palestine, we have provided over EUR 1 billion for the Balkans, we have also provided a lot of money, EUR 1 billion, for Afghanistan. I do not believe that appropriating EUR 200 million, and then asking the day after to increase this figure to EUR 500 million, is outrageous, unless we want to treat international crises differently according to our political assessments, which would not affect us politically but would affect the people in question.
Secondly, I would certainly like to focus on investment in the TENs, which is important and which we must try to support because it means development and jobs. I would, therefore, like to thank you for supporting this amendment, but I would call, at this point, for even more resources to try to make TENs become a political instrument across Europe and not just a technical decision.
Thirdly, one of the amendments tabled is extremely important, and I would ask all the political groups to take notice of it: an amendment regarding the accommodation centre for disabled officials, the
centre. We are going to vote for the amendment and I would ask everyone to raise awareness on this matter. We will be proud of it and we will do ourselves credit, both now and in the future."@en1
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