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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Financial Perspective outlines the scope of the EU’s activities over coming years, as well as providing a framework for such activities and determining how effective they will be. There are major tasks ahead of us. We want to ensure that enlargement is successfully completed, to lay the foundations for rapid growth and job creation and to achieve the new goals established during the debates held while the European Constitution was being drafted. The Financial Perspective must meet these expectations. We all want more Europe, because we believe that the creation of a common Europe is the right answer to the challenges we face today.
Two opposing approaches and ways of thinking emerged during work on the Financial Perspective. The first, advocated by the Commission, provides for an ambitious but balanced increase in expenditure, which would keep pace with growing expectations. The second, backed by a group of Member States, consists in cuts to the budget as a percentage of GDP.
We are fully aware that although the EU’s remit has expanded, it must deliver on this remit at a time of severe budgetary restrictions and weak economic growth. Under no circumstances, however, should these restrictions make us blind to the unquestionable benefits that may be gained from measures funded from the common EU budget. It follows that a compromise is necessary, and an eminently sensible one is set out in Parliament’s proposal. If I may, I should like to take this opportunity to thank Mr Böge for the effort he has put into drafting this report.
Ladies and gentlemen, the unsuccessful referenda in France and the Netherlands mean Europe now needs clear confirmation that integration is and will continue to be our common future. I would therefore call on the Council to reach a compromise, to abandon selfish and conservative attitudes and to go beyond the narrow confines of purely national interests. The reason I call for a compromise is that the European Union is in urgent need of a clear vision of the future and the financial capacity to take action.
We should work together to demonstrate that Europe is capable of acting in a spirit of solidarity, and that its political leaders are able to rise above short-term political interests and reach agreements for the common good."@en1
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