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"The fact that we have reached an agreement on budgetary discipline and sound financial management, as well as an agreement on the financial perspective for 2007-2013 is a definite step forwards. However, neither the points of conflict nor the stop-gap measures used to agree the annual budget and the financial perspective of the EU have been ironed out. We will have to continue patiently to seek forms of regular communication, at least between the Council and Parliament. In other words, we will have to continue to intensify communication between MEPs and the national parliaments and governments.
It is a far more complex and urgent matter, however to reform the individual structures of the EU as items of budgetary finance. We need mention only the well-known need for greater efficiency in agriculture, which is the largest recipient of European funds, or the reduction in finance from the structural funds, where the effectiveness of the programmes is often doubtful, and where funding difficult to control, and corruption and cronyism are likely.
One way out could be a gradual move towards supporting and increasing funding for the construction of trans-European networks. This would create the preconditions for a growth in Europe’s global competitiveness, and the European Parliament, in guaranteeing national activities of this kind, would undoubtedly enhance its political prestige."@en1
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