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dcterms:Date	"2010-10-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Budget review (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20101019.21.2-401"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-10-19-Speech-2-4032
lpv:speaker	lp:Jean-Luc Dehaene2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2009-09-16--2014-05-15)3 member; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2009-09-16--2014-05-15)3 vice-chair; BUDG (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Special committee on the policy challenges and budgetary resources for a sustainable European Union after 2013 (2010-06-17--2011-06-30)3 member; EPP (2009-07-14--2014-05-15)3 substitute; AFCO (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 unknown; Christen-Democratisch & Vlaams (2009-07-14--2014-05-15)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the mid-term review of the multiannual financial framework with which the Commission is presenting us today is at once disappointing and encouraging. The document is disappointing in the sense that it does not open up any prospect of a revision of the multiannual framework for 2010-2012. Yet the 2011 budget has shown this to be untenable. Indeed, the financial framework takes account of neither the new tasks under the Treaty of Lisbon nor the EU 2020 objectives. This is indeed untenable. At the very least, scope for greater flexibility must be introduced. Fortunately, the Commission is also advocating this. This increased flexibility should apply from as soon as 2012. The document is encouraging, on the other hand, in that the Commission is opening the debate on own resources at long last. This may be the big debate in the next few years; a difficult but unavoidable one. The treaty states that the EU budget must be financed from own resources. Currently, 80% of it is financed by transfers from national budgets. These are not European own resources, but instead form part of national budgetary expenditure. They weigh down on the national deficits that the European Stability and Growth Pact seeks to reduce, and so Member States attempt to reduce these transfers. At the same time, they expect more from Europe, as is evident from the Treaty of Lisbon and the EU 2020 strategy. We must break through this contradiction. This can be done only by having recourse to genuine own resources. These must also make it possible to reduce Member States’ contributions and to increase EU resources. As possible own resources, the Commission rightly points to new taxes that are directly linked to policy areas developed mainly at European level. I would cite the examples of climate policy and the regulation of the financial sector. It is to be hoped that the European Council and the Council will also grasp the need to now open the debate on own resources as a matter of urgency with a view to the financial perspective from 2014 onwards."@en1
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