Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-11-23-Speech-2-195"
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"We have here a case of coincidental timing: Parliament has been asked to give its opinion today on six requests for European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) assistance that have been submitted by the Netherlands while, at the same time, the 2011 budget negotiations are stalling because of the refusal by the Netherlands and by two other Member States to engage in a responsible and constructive dialogue on the future of the European budget. Today’s votes are therefore, in my view, an opportunity to point out that the European budget is not just an accounting tool that everyone finds daunting: it is, first and foremost, the ‘power’ behind the European Union that enables it to work day in day out to protect its citizens, and particularly through the EGF, to protect unemployed workers.
The vote on the allocation of EGF aid to the Dutch workers could have been used as a ‘protest vote’ against the Dutch Government, which is criticising on the one hand what it is benefiting from on the other. Instead, it has been an opportunity for Parliament to recall that the principle of solidarity must be the foundation on which all EU decisions are made."@en1
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