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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, a great deal of care needs to be taken with this year’s budget. In 16 years in Parliament I do not remember when there was so much pressure from the national treasuries. The Council is clearly going to be seeking a reduction in payment appropriations, even to below 1%, in particular based on the under-implementation – which is now beginning to emerge – of the Structural Funds, due to cash-flow problems in the Member States. The Council will also want to establish reductions in commitment appropriations in the category of administrative expenditure in order to bring this category 5 in line with the general trend of cuts emerging in the national administrations. Of course, the Council will want to create large margins in the expenditure categories in order to safeguard some of the priorities that the rapporteur mentioned, such as Kozloduy, the international thermonuclear experimental reactor and Galileo, which, although they are very important, were not provided for in the current financial perspective. The circumstances are obviously extraordinary, and were not foreseen when we adopted the multiannual financial framework in December 2006. If there is any flexibility in the EU budget mechanism, this is clearly the time to demonstrate it, but it will require a great deal of flexibility in negotiations. The crises in the national treasuries are a fact, but the European Union’s political priorities, expressed for example in this budgetary mandate, are also a fact. We will of course all act responsibly during this financial year; of course we will find areas of the budget where savings can be made, but let us not forget that a European Union strategy for economic growth requires an adequate EU budget. Parliament will fight to secure that budget."@en1
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