Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-02-25-Speech-3-117"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-02-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:2005 budget procedure: guidelines for sections II, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII(A) and VIII(B) and preliminary draft estimates (Section I)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040225.8.3-117"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-02-25-Speech-3-1182
lpv:speaker	lp:Alain Esclopé2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Temporary committee on improving safety at sea (2003-11-20--2004-04-21)3,3 member; EDD (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 unknown; Chasse, Pêche, Nature, Traditions (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the procedure of voting without debate, applied to the Haug report on the Communities’ own resources, deprives us of a joint discussion, using this report, on the budget guidelines for 2005. The fact remains that the Haug report and the Kuckelkorn report have one thing in common which deserves attention and which also deserves a much wider debate than we are allowed here. Both of them start by calling for sound management and rigour. Later, however, in the report we are concerned with here, we read that, for its own budget, Parliament reserves its position on the 20% increase limit which it imposed upon itself for administrative expenditure. We also read, in the explanatory statement to the Haug report – and I quote – ‘new own resources should be introduced that do not take the form of contributions of the Member States and do not, taken as a whole, increase the tax burden on ordinary citizens’. The situation is clear then: the majority of Parliament wants to increase the Union’s budget, in particular in order to fund enlargement. The European tax is something that is on everyone’s mind, though in a form that is disguised to a greater or lesser extent. There is nothing surprising in that; promises have to be funded and resources are not inexhaustible. I look to the rapporteurs and the Commission to explain how it is possible to increase the European budget without increasing the tax burden on taxpayers except by reducing the national budgets. If the majority accepts this principle of ‘communicating vessels’, governments and finance ministers will have to make it clear to the public which policies and measures funded from the national budget will bear the cost, in a context which is already one of rigour, and of which the Commission claims to be the guardian, inasmuch as it takes action against those States which do not comply with the stability pact."@en1

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