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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, as the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy’s rapporteur for the budget, I have to say that in the committee, we agreed at a very early stage, even before the crisis began, that we must give higher priority to climate and energy measures and small- and medium-sized companies in particular. We have now come to the same conclusion in the Committee on Budgets, and I would like to thank the rapporteurs for their exceptionally constructive cooperation in connection with the budget this year. We would also stress the necessity to concentrate on investment in common growth and infrastructures.
I was listening to Mr Lundgren from the Independence and Democracy Group a little while ago. He has, of course, completely misunderstood this. No one believes that we could have so large an EU budget that the EU itself could counteract the efforts to improve the economic situation. The things we should be doing are common things that individual Member States cannot manage, to build the EU into a common market, a real common market. Now that we have removed barriers to trade, we must also acquire a common infrastructure, in particular, a common energy infrastructure, and common research so that we can take the lead worldwide. This is, of course, what it is all about; it is not about taking something away from the Member States.
I spoke for the first time in this budget debate in 1999. What were we talking about then? Well, the same things we are talking about today – jobs, growth, simplification and increased efficiency, increased flexibility in the budget to improve the EU’s ability to react quickly to new challenges. However, we are, unfortunately, still going over far too much old ground. The Commission’s initiative in conjunction with the recovery plan is therefore welcome, even if it has been put together very quickly.
In any case, I think that the most important thing we can do now is to bring about a more real and stable change in the EU’s budget policy. The results of the Commission’s open cooperation on the long-term budget demonstrate what this is all about: a stable and long-term investment in growth, environment and climate policy. This also means that we can get away from the current state of affairs with continual ad hoc efforts to revise the budget plan. We now need a new structure for the long-term budget. This is the most important thing that the Commission can do now. Thank you."@en1
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