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"Madam President, I in my turn would like to pay every homage to the Luxembourg Presidency. Listening to Mr Juncker, I was proud to belong to a Europe presided over by a man of such quality. You have shown that the authority of a Presidency can be measured by its willingness to place the common interest above its own national interest and it is on this criterion that, from tomorrow, we will judge your successor.
I would like to add three comments on the financial perspectives. The first is that certain governments are calling for all the EU’s policies to be sent back to the drawing board, which is what the European Parliament did after the nine months of work by its temporary committee. Our Parliament has succeeded in making difficult choices between old policies and new ones. The Council could benefit from taking inspiration from this example. I am sure that the future Presidency will find food for thought in it.
My second comment is that the lack of a position from the Council must not delay the implementation of the new cohesion policy or that of the new Framework Programme on Research. We propose to pursue legislation relating to the legal bases for the multi-annual policies so that those policies can enter into force on 1 January 2007.
My third comment, finally, is that the Council has failed, not on the main subject of the level of budgetary expenditure, but on the method of financing a budget that has remained stable with respect to EU revenue. This confirms the analysis that we have made here right from the start. There can be no agreement on future expenditure without, at the same time, reform of the revenue system, and this subject is too important to be left just to the Ministers for Finance. Our Committee on Budgets invited the committees of the national parliaments to an initial exchange of views on this subject last week. We propose that the EU’s system of own resources should be examined in the context of an interparliamentary conference bringing together the European Parliament and the national parliaments to aid the governments in their search for the necessary compromise."@en1
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