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dcterms:Date	"2005-04-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Commission's annual policy strategy for 20062
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050412.31.2-334"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-04-12-Speech-2-3352
lpv:speaker	lp:Esko Seppänen2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007-2013 (2004-10-14--2005-06-08)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-21--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Vasemmistoliitto (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; CONT (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; ITRE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; BUDG (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, Commissioner, I shall not thank Mr Pittella yet; I shall thank him later on, in December. These are only the first kilometres of a long marathon. The rapporteur has been in touch with different groups and investigated their focus areas for the preparation of the budget. We in the Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left consider it important that social and economic solidarity is strengthened, as well as environmental policy. We give our support to the rapporteur in his endeavours to give these issues priority in the budget. Our group understands all too well that adequate payment appropriations should be secured to finance all payment commitments made. We would like to remind the representatives of the Council of the fact that, if no agreement on this budget or on the financial perspective in future years are reached, according to the current basic agreement, payment appropriations will in any case be 1.06% of the GNP. As seen from the point of view of Parliament, there is no point in the Council proposing any lower payment appropriations. I want to mention the financing of the Natura 2000 programme, one of the rapporteur’s focus areas. It is unclear how funds are being allocated for the purposes of the programme. I agree with the rapporteur that we should cautiously prepare for new Community-subsidised areas. Today nobody knows how joint funding is used for Natura 2000 or how exactly the costs should be shared between the Member States and the Union. It would be reasonable, if Member States with large populations and few Natura areas would, through the EU, contribute towards the protection of our common European natural environment in the more sparsely populated Member States. The view of our group is negative as regards the financing of any expenditure to militarise the Union or which, protected by the smoke screen of information services, is used to finance propaganda to support the federal development of the European Union."@en1

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