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"Madam President, the Committee on Foreign Affairs is concerned about the cuts made by the Council in crucial areas relating to Europe’s influence in external matters.
Natural disasters such as the tsunami cannot be alleviated by making drastic cuts in areas of political significance. This budget reduces the amounts allocated to the European initiative for democracy and human rights and to Latin America and provides insufficient funding for the Neighbourhood Policy in MEDA and for Eastern European countries. We cannot accept it. We firmly suggest to the Council that it makes use of the flexibility instrument.
Furthermore, even though it is the moment for making savings, the number of foreign representatives from the EU is growing at an impressive rate, without Parliament being informed as to the relevance of those appointments. We will request additional information from the Council before offering our opinion on this expenditure.
Finally, we insist before the Council, as we did before the Commission, that the budget allocated to the reconstruction of Iraq is entirely managed by the United Nations and not in part by the World Bank Trust Fund, as Parliament has already requested on two occasions."@en1
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