Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-12-11-Speech-2-225"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-12-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Draft general budget 2008 as modified by the Council (all sections) (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20071211.35.2-225"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-12-11-Speech-2-2262
lpv:speaker	lp:Esko Seppänen2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; CONT (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-21--2009-07-13)3,3 unknown; Vasemmistoliitto (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3,3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; ITRE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 member; BUDG (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, tomorrow we shall adopt the EU’s budget for next year, one in which payments clearly fall below the 1% ceiling, to say nothing of the fact that it will be 1.24% of GNI. In that respect the outcome is satisfactory to those in our group who want to save their own countries’ taxpayers’ money. On the other hand, there are many in our group who would have liked the Commission’s budget to follow the policy that Parliament adopts in the way it uses its resources, which smacks of poorer budgetary discipline. It is always trying to find new areas for expenditure, although there may be no good use for the money. In our group there are also two attitudes to the Galileo project. Some want to see it financed out of the EU’s budget; others entirely reject Galileo on account of its huge cost. It is feared that it will be poor value for what is public money. As the private companies have pulled out, Galileo’s future now depends on financing by the EU. Our group takes a dim view of the militarisation of the Galileo project, which was originally meant exclusively for civil use. We also take a dim view of the additional financing out of the EU’s budget for the Union’s foreign, security and defence policy. We adhere to the notion that the EU is a peace organisation and that it should not be militarised and become a superpower’s agent. For that is what it will be if the Council wants to put more money into financing the Common Foreign and Security Policy. We do not want to be involved in the use of EU budget funds to prop up the political heritage of old transitional states in Africa or the illegal actions of the United States of America, which has acted as a torturer in Iraq and Afghanistan. In view of all this, our group will vote, in a spirit of amicability, against Mr Virrankoski’s budget report."@en1

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