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Mr President, the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats shares the aims adopted by our Temporary Committee on the basis of the proposals submitted by its rapporteur, Reimer Böge, to whom I wish to pay tribute on behalf of our group. Thanks to him, Parliament’s position will be ready on schedule. The strong message that emerges from this report is that the Union cannot be enlarged and enhanced without increasing its budget. President Barroso has reminded us of that fact.
In our view, the first key requirement is to fund the policies covered by the Lisbon agenda: the trans-European networks, research, university exchanges and the knowledge-based economy. Another key requirement is solidarity: the scrupulous practice of solidarity with our new partners and solidarity throughout Europe with all those who are victims of industrial restructuring or of difficulties arising from geographical factors. As far as the funding of the common agricultural policy is concerned, the commitments made to farmers for the period up to 2013 must be honoured. If it emerged, however, that needs outweighed these resources, they would have to be topped up by the Member States. With or without the Constitutional Treaty, the Council and Parliament have forcibly expressed their common desire to see the economic union transform itself gradually into a genuine political union. Our priorities in this context are the war on terrorism and serious crime and the new neighbourhood policy.
Mr President, we are well aware that the overall needs identified by our Temporary Committee fall short of the ambitions of our Parliament. Sadly, it is not possible to go any further today without radically reforming the own-resources system. It is the wish of our Committee on Budgets to work on this objective in close liaison with the national parliaments. We firmly believe that it will be possible to find together the consensus solutions without which the Union will remain permanently unable to finance its political ambitions."@en1
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