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"Mr President, the European Union is very much in need of good news at present, and the fact that the EU institutions – Parliament, the Council and the Commission – have agreed on the European Union’s annual budget for 2012 is indeed good news. I would like to thank everyone present here for their good will and cooperation, and also to extend my particular thanks to the staff: our assistants and advisors and the staff of the Secretariat, who often work through the night, under appalling working conditions.
We must not forget, however, that fundamental, important and very serious problems associated with the European Union budget have not been resolved during our negotiations; moreover, the problems that we will face as a budgetary authority in the near future can be seen very clearly.
I would like to focus in particular on the issue of amending budget No 6 for the year 2011. I am glad that we have managed to agree on the amending budget as well, but it can be seen that the problems which have come to light in this budget will recur; what is more, they will accumulate. Why is this? In my view, it results from people’s expectations of the European Union, its ambitions and plans, the launching of new policies and new measures, such as common diplomacy, its ever-greater involvement in policy related to humanitarian operations, its pursuit of ambitious structural measures, its activities in the field of research – the list could go on forever. All of these ambitions, measures and expectations are not accompanied by any desire on the part of the Member States to finance them. This is a problem which not only will not disappear, but will intensify, because we are committing ourselves to more and more measures, and yet there are no payments to go with them.
I hope that the openness and dialogue we have seen during the conciliation procedure will accompany us as we resolve the problem of payments I have been discussing. I am certainly very open to such a debate. I thank you once again, and I think that the conciliation procedure is the beginning of a long road."@en1
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