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"Madam President, Commissioner, Mr Lewis, except when it comes to the foreign budget, agreeing on the 2006 budget really ought, of course, to be a simple matter, for there is plenty of room for the increases requested by the Commission within the ceiling of the financial perspectives. The finance ministers have, however, almost ritually sat down together and slashed away at every possible area. These have primarily been within foreign policy, but payments to structural funds and for internal policy have also to bear the brunt, and that is rather surprising in the light of the far better implementation we have seen in recent years of, for example, the structural fund programmes. Research has been cut back, as have the funds for supporting other projects within the framework of the Lisbon process that EU Heads of State no doubt still want to keep going. We in the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe particularly regret the slashing of programmes for developing small and medium-sized businesses – programmes that, for example, help the banks make credit available to small businesses in the new Member States where, with limited resources, a large dispersal effect has been achieved, benefiting economic development. We must also deeply regret savings within the transport area, including those in relation to the new agencies for aviation and maritime safety. Clearly, nothing is too small to escape the axe. Even the subsidy for the successful programme for developing medicines to combat rare diseases is at the receiving end. Mr Lewis spoke of dialogue, and I do hope we can obtain dialogue and cooperation. Unfortunately, we are likely to see a situation in which the budget has to be debated with no agreement on the framework for the 2007-2013 budget."@en1
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