Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-05-17-Speech-3-033"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-05-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:IIA on budgetary discipline and sound financial management – Conclusion of the IIA on budgetary discipline and sound financial management (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060517.3.3-033"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-05-17-Speech-3-0342
lpv:speaker	lp:Anne E. Jensen2
lpv:spokenAs	member; BUDG (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; EMPL (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 substitute; TRAN (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 member; ALDE (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Venstre, Danmarks Liberale Parti (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Belarus (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, reaching the agreement on budgetary discipline has been a long haul. In Parliament, we have done some thorough work, analysing what is needed and developing common political priorities. We have done this in the course of more than a year under the expert leadership of our rapporteur, Mr Böge, whose efforts have been exemplary. The EU Heads of State or Government lapsed, however, into unseemly bartering about income and expenditure, with refrains such as ‘We will not pay’, ‘Maximum of 1%’ and ‘We want our money back’. The compromise we are debating today really is, therefore, a compromise. It is not a particularly attractive one, and no one is fully satisfied with it. Rather, it is the art of the possible. The optimist in us will, however, emphasise that it is constructive that there is now a framework to facilitate the legislative work on the programmes for the Structural Funds, research and education. What is more, the framework provides more resources for investment in education, research and transport and for aid to the EU’s poor regions, while expenditure on agricultural aid is cut back. I therefore recommend voting in favour of the agreement. We have ensured that administration of the EU budget will become less bureaucratic. We have ensured that responsibility for administering EU resources has been placed squarely with the Member States. We have ensured that the European Investment Bank is able to provide far more ambitious funding and that more young people are able to take part in educational exchange programmes. We have also ensured that the EU budget for health and consumer protection was not subject to the swingeing cutbacks planned by the Heads of State or Government. The framework is tight, however; so tight that it pinches. Let me give an example. The Commission proposed EUR 20 billion by way of investment in cross-border transport projects. Parliament supported the Commission, but the result has only been EUR 7 billion. How are we to obtain money for the 30 cross-border projects that have been adopted? I think that the Council owes us an answer regarding how the common projects can be made a reality."@en1

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