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"Mr President, I firstly want to thank the national delegations, who I understand have resisted pressure in their Member States and will vote for this report. I feel that this is not a debate on budget volume, but rather on the supremacy of the Community method, and I think that those who have focused this debate on efforts to reduce the Union budget have made a mistake. They want new priorities and a reduced budget; I say to them that going down this route will mean that they end up with a reduced budget and fewer priorities. I certainly do not understand how they can sit in this hemicycle and defend an intergovernmental approach. Leave that step to the Council; you should defend a European Union, with its policies, priorities, responsibilities, and an adequate budget. We do not want an increase of 5% in European public spending; instead, we are seeking to alleviate national budgetary burdens and gather certain transnational investments into the EU budget, where they can be more efficiently utilised. That is the European added value that all groups in this Chamber accepted in the Policy Challenges (SURE) Committee this year. I think this is certainly a far-reaching proposal; it is an ambitious proposal and requires important decisions to be made in the Member States, and we would ask them to rise to the challenge it entails. I want to acknowledge the constructiveness of the proposals and the debate, which I feel has been sufficiently vibrant and has fully expressed the mosaic of viewpoints which unite the European Parliament. I think that we come out of this debate, in any case, in a much richer position as a House and with a much improved political profile."@en1
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