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"Mr President, I welcome Mr Lewandowski, an old friend of this House who now sits on different benches to those of the Members.
I also want to welcome the return to the traditional system of budgetary guidelines. I believe that this is a good thing, because in this way, the Commissioner can listen to Parliament’s budgetary priorities before drawing up the draft budget.
The things the Commissioner is hearing or will be hearing today are very different to those he undoubtedly hears every day from the various general sides that put pressure on him to let them have a bigger budget.
We in Parliament are not going to put pressure on him for the time being. As he knows, we will be doing that from September onwards. For now, we just want Mr Lewandowski to be very clear about what the budgetary priorities of Parliament represent. They represent our suggestions.
New challenges for the 2011 budget arise every day. We already have new pressures in category four, where we are allowing for a very tight margin that will be made tighter by the need to include the Baltic Sea Strategy.
We shall have pressures in agriculture, not only because we are using codecision for the first time, but, above all, because we are intending to use it through Parliament and we will not agree to further cuts to the agricultural budget to fund other areas. We shall also, of course, need to resolve the ever-problematic issue of category five: administrative costs and greater transparency.
One last thing: this House is very open to saving money from both the EU budget and from Parliament’s budget. What we political groups are not open to, I believe, is putting up with the demagogy of certain people who make it their way of conducting politics."@en1
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