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Madam President, I should like to start by thanking the rapporteur, Mr Lewandowski, for a good report, and also by expressing my satisfaction with the new procedure and the more open dialogue and early briefing of the committee that has been evident. As several in this House have remarked, 2009 is a special year. Even though the Lisbon Treaty has not yet been ratified in all countries, we have to take account, in our budgeting, of its entry into force in 2009.
The European Parliament’s new powers – giving it, for example, influence over the agricultural budget and over legal policy – will mean adjusting some of its priorities to cope with the new responsibilities. Then there are the elections to the European Parliament and the Statute for Members, which also have an impact on the budget.
The Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe is content with Parliament’s draft budget remaining within 20% of EU administrative expenditure. There is no guarantee that this will be feasible in the next few years, but it is important that we hold administrative expenditure in check.
I should also like to express the ALDE Group’s great satisfaction with the emergence of a new model for the remuneration of Members’ assistants. Our group has wanted to see a statute for Members’ assistants for a long time. It is the right solution for Parliament to take over the administration, and this is reflected in the 2009 budget.
Considerable savings have been achieved from the sale of buildings over the last 10 years, but I agree that we have now reached a point at which this policy must be revised, and that the buildings policy in general should undergo a service. We have yet to see a proposal for the other institutions, but there is cause to keep a watchful eye on the growing buildings expenditure of those, too.
Finally, the issue of the financing of the future EU Minister of Foreign Affairs and the President of the European Council remains important, but we shall come back to that later."@en1
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