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"en.20111026.16.3-195-500"2
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"The 2012 budget may include the lowest budget for the European Parliament’s own expenditure for 15 years, but there would still be sufficient potential for more savings here, particularly with regard to the travel circus between Brussels and Strasbourg. It is also high time that a selective thinning out was performed on the proliferation of EU agencies in order to make more potential savings. It is disgraceful that even the combating of fraud and the recovery of European funds erroneously paid out does not actually work properly. The report calls for an increase of 5.2%, which would increase the EU budget next year to EUR 133.1 billion. Particularly during a time of financial, economic and debt crisis, that sends out a disturbing signal. The Member States are tightening their belts and have also had austerity reforms imposed on them from EU level, but the EU budget is nevertheless to increase. I voted against this report, which is once again an example of us not practising what we preach."@en1
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