Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-12-14-Speech-2-290"

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lpv:document identification number	"en.20041214.15.2-290"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Den Dover2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, on the future of European Parliament funding and financing, I accept that it is very important that the Commission and the Council of Ministers, and indeed Parliament, try after the first seven years to think about rationalising during the five years of Parliament's term. We have the advantage of a fixed term, we ought to use that for future financial perspective periods. I very much agreed this afternoon with Mr van den Berg when he said that we must do something in the nation-states to tighten up on accountability. That leads me on to our philosophy in the British Conservative group, which is that we should try to do what we can in Europe and do it effectively and efficiently. If that means doing less, then let us do it better. Too often we try to increase the powers in Europe and increase our coverage of all sorts of items. That does not just cost money, it leads to further dilution of concentration, of accountability, and that is extremely important. The other point I wish to raise is about own resources. We need to consider the method of own resources. We have a perfectly acceptable method that works quite well and we should not make fundamental changes to it. I would not ever like to see the imposition of a European Union tax, which has been thought about for the period from 2013 onwards. That would be a retrograde step. We need to have a Council of Ministers that is all-powerful in my book, even speaking as an MEP. Basically it pays the bills, and that is fine by me, provided we can control what we are doing and provide proper accountability in future."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Dover (PPE-DE )."1

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