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"Mr President, I would also very much like to thank Mr Grech for his constructive and thorough work on Parliament’s Budget for 2007. We are dealing here with a budget of just under EUR 1.4 billion, and there are three points to which I would like to draw attention. The first of these is that nearly half of the expenditure is caused by the geographical spread of Parliament’s activities and the fact that we work in many languages. These are conditions that are very specific to the European Parliament but also conditions that we are not, ourselves, in control of. Secondly, I wish to emphasise the need constantly to reprioritise and to bring about greater efficiency, particularly with regard to staffing policy, where redeployment is required. I would like to draw attention to the need to have better facilities for Members, so that they are able to work more efficiently, and to make information policy more effective, in which connection there is a need carefully to assess the contributions of the national information offices. A third point that I would like to raise is the matter of the purchase of buildings in Strasbourg. There has clearly been a lot of public blustering about this issue, and it would be entirely unacceptable if it should turn out that the location of Parliament in Strasbourg has been a money machine for the city. So we are forced, for the time being, to put the purchase of buildings on hold. Personally, I would prefer it if Parliament were able to content itself with being located in Brussels, so that we could work effectively on this issue too."@en1

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