Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-06-07-Speech-2-231"
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"Madam President, I too would like to congratulate our rapporteur, Mr Böge, because he has been able to send a crystal clear message to the Commission and the Council indicating what this Parliament wants.
How much money are we prepared to spend on the European project? What financial effort are we prepared to dedicate to the process of European integration at a time when Europe is facing difficulties, when it is at a crossroads?
The rapporteur proposes less than the Commission, but more than the Council has proposed this afternoon. The President-in-Office of the Council says that we must create balances. I would stress what Mr Elles has said: balances are required, but we should remind the Council that with less money we will not create more Europe, we will create less Europe at a time when we need to re-affirm this project.
The referenda that have been held in recent days, as many speakers have mentioned, have reminded us of the need to focus on the real needs of our citizens, and they want us to grow more quickly. In order to do that, we must create more jobs, we must be more productive, we must spend more money on investment, research and development. In short, we must implement the Lisbon reforms. And in order to do that, we need money.
Our citizens have also reminded us that they believe in a social model in which both cohesion and the efficiency of the market are priorities. Without a policy of correcting territorial imbalances, the economic project represented by the European Union could probably survive. What would not survive would be the political project that is at stake here.
We must convince our citizens that together we can deal with our future challenges: the challenges of globalisation, of competition from emerging countries, of relocation of companies and the ageing of the population. And in order to do that we need more money.
As an additional and final point, I would like to express my strong opposition to the beginning of co-funding of the agricultural policy, since that will also mean breaking the social cohesion rules on which the model we believe in has been based."@en1
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