Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-09-06-Speech-2-196"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-09-06"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Union general budget for 20062
dcterms:Language	"sk"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050906.31.2-196"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-09-06-Speech-2-1972
lpv:speaker	lp:Sergej Kozlík2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; ECON (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; NA (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Hnutie za demokratické Slovensko (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; BUDG (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Unlike in previous years, the European Commission has presented a cautious 2006 draft budget for the European Union. Compared with 2005, the European Commission proposed a 4% increase in commitments and a 5.9% increase in payments. As a percentage of the GNP, this amounts to just 2% in the case of payments, which is far below the imaginary ceiling of the long-term financial perspective. The draft budget for 2006 further widened the gap between the commitments and the payments, as well as between available resources of national budgets and the EU budget. The lack of funds to cover key EU policies has therefore been a subject of criticism in the first stage of the discussion about the proposed budget in the European Parliament. This is the reason why the budget proposed by the Council came as a cold shower, as it leaves no room for manoeuvre between the proposals of the European Commission and of the European Council. A more detailed analysis of adjustments to the budget of the European Commission shows that an overriding majority of 51 items in which the European Council has intervened compared with 2005 (46 items) maintain the trend set in the European Commission’s draft budget. Council’s interventions therefore evoke the impression of a technocratic reduction in expenditures under the motto ‘let us cut by one half the increase in expenditures exceeding those of 2005’, and the motto ‘let us take away more where the expenditures are lower than in 2005’. This approach by the European Council undermines the atmosphere of mutual trust in the current budgeting process, and could lead to a protracted position war between the key institutions of the European Union."@en1

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