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"I should like first of all to thank our rapporteur, Mr Garriga Polledo, even though he cannot be here, since it is clearly a mammoth task to examine the budget.
Last year, Mr President of the Council, Commissioner, the budget passed through the symbolic barrier of EUR 100 billion. This year, there is a feeling that the novelty has worn off. We have reached the end of two great budgetary cycles and the end, perhaps, of two political worlds.
First of all, clearly, we have reached the end of the Prodi cycle, of the planning for 2000-2006 and already, with a temporary Commission, we have been and are still working on the 2007-2013 cycle. At the same time, however, we have also reached the end of the cycle of European budgetary modesty. The European budget, in fact, even at EUR 106 billion, is less than Spain’s (EUR 117 billion for Spain).
Everyone realises that, with the arrival of Turkey, it is not just EUR 277 million which will have to be added, at pre-accession stage, but EUR 33 billion every year. Ten years from now, consequently, the European budget will have doubled and the question of European taxation will have to be addressed. We shall no longer be talking about 1% or 1.24% of gross national revenue.
We shall then have reached the end of two political worlds. First of all, the world of Parliament-Council relations, since, in 2009, the distinction between compulsory and non-compulsory expenditure will have disappeared and the anti-farming majority in this Parliament will rule against the agricultural world and the rural world. This will at the same time be the end of a second world, which is already happening now, since, in the 2005 budget, the agricultural appropriations have been cut by a billion euro and, subsequently, these appropriations are to be plundered in order to finance other things on the pretext of rural development. However, the disappearance from villages of post offices, railway stations, public revenue offices and public services clearly shows where we are heading.
This is why I would have liked us, with the assistance of our rapporteur and the assistance of our colleagues, to be able, in the 2006 budget, to create a European public holiday in honour of rural mayors in order to pay homage to the work of the 90 000 rural mayors of the villages of Europe. Otherwise, our 2005 budget already belongs to the cosy little world of a Europe with worldwide ambitions and a provincial budget."@en1
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