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"I have voted in favour of the European Parliament’s draft EU general budget for 2004. Although it contains commitments totalling EUR 200 million for 2003-2004 for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Iraq, the budget is limited overall, amounting in the end to approximately one per cent of the Member States’ total estimated GDP for 2004. It is also important for Parliament to keep up the pressure on the Commission constantly to improve control and reporting. Measures must be taken to combat cheating and fraud.
It is important and a matter of urgency that there should be a clearer link between agriculture and the environment. Adjustment of the common agricultural policy must include, for example, investments in higher food quality and the combating of animal diseases, which is a view shared by Parliament. The Christian Democrats also believe that the subsidising of tobacco cultivation should be phased out, as well as, gradually, the export subsidies that distort prices in the world market and are unfair to the developing countries. It is only regrettable that such proposals have not been supported by Parliament.
As Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Development and Cooperation, my colleague, Mr Wijkman, has successfully campaigned for EU development policy to be mainly aimed at achieving what are termed the millennium development objectives, above all in relation to combating poverty. Parliament has adopted this position, as well as wordings in the aid budget aimed at making development policy more results-oriented."@en1
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