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"Mr President, in practice Parliament’s line on the EU budget shows no evidence of solidarity with the Commission, and this is a great shame. We spend a lot of time in this House talking about a strong EU that would compete with the USA or Asia, yet a strong EU with a small budget is inconceivable, not to say absurd.
It needs to be stated in plain terms that the Temporary Committee’s proposal would leave us worse off than that put forward by the Barroso Commission. It is, however, a vast improvement on the Luxembourg Presidency’s so-called compromise, which was doomed to failure. If the richest EU Member States insist on imposing their opinion on everyone else, the end result will be that the vision of a common Europe, based on solidarity, is shattered. If our aim is to build a Europe of selfish and personal interests, we should go ahead and support a small EU budget. The other possibility, of course, is that the real proposal being put to the new EU Member States is for the enlarged EU to be a Europe of solidarity only in terms of duties. The opposite would apply as far as privileges are concerned, especially those of the financial variety.
I should like to make one final point. It is better for financial perspectives to be agreed over a seven-year period, as has been the case to date, rather than a five-year period."@en1
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