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"Europe is experiencing a crisis. The tax shortfalls of self-governing regions exceed 20% of the budget, compared to the period before the crisis, which is unsustainable. The revenue shortfalls for municipalities look very similar. They cannot fund their core competences, they are laying off employees and they are getting into debt.
In such a situation, we should not be surprised that they fail to understand why the European Parliament is asking for more resources.
However, if states coordinated their policies and funding in the area of priorities, they would achieve better results and would save more funds than the amount by which we want to increase the common EU budget. There is therefore no better alternative than the one we are discussing today.
We must discuss it and debate it more, not only in the European Parliament, but especially with ministers in the Council, with members of national parliaments, and also in the regions, so that they understand that a joint solution will bring not only the best result for our citizens, but will also lead to savings in national budgets."@en1
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