Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-02-10-Speech-2-200"
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"Before negotiating the financial perspective for 2007-2013, it is important to have a clear idea of the political backdrop to this issue. In this respect, today’s debate is an opportunity for the Commission, as is often the case, to try to win the support of the European Parliament for a relatively high level of annual resources, of 1.24% of gross national income (and that is without the European Development Fund), against the position of the contributing Member States, including France, which would like 1% (as in 2004).
This alliance between Parliament and the Commission is an implicit reference to the idea of a gradual expansion of the Union’s remit, which is intended to lead one day to a federal budget. I might add that in parallel the Commission is launching a campaign for a European tax.
We must avoid any drift in this direction, so as not to sustain a new bureaucracy and not to compromise the competitiveness objectives that were set in Lisbon. The European Union, which is at the service of the Member States, should not be cornering their tasks, in particular that of redistribution. It should simply provide the added value that comes from coordination, which only requires slim administrations and limited resources. It should live from the contributions that the nation states vote for and control on an annual basis.
Under these conditions, the position currently held by the paying Member States seems to us to be entirely justified."@en1
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