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"Mr President, we are discussing the very modest budget for 2012, below 1% of EU GNI, despite growing responsibilities under the Lisbon Treaty and despite growing challenges which deserve a common answer. Although this budget is nominally growing, it is not growing in real terms – in real terms, it is decreasing. And we are not asking on behalf of the Commission or on behalf of Parliament; here we are starting savings. 94% of what we are asking for is for the operational expenditure of a different nature from that which is in the national budgets.
Therefore, I have to respond to some speakers who notoriously accuse us of growing while others are making cuts. This is simply not true; this is true of only about four countries, which are easy to guess – Greece, Ireland, Spain and Portugal, which are decreasing. The other national budgets of the European Union are growing, including the UK and the Dutch budgets. Despite all the savings, we have some obligations to make payments from the European budget. This is all the same, with the big difference that the European budget is always in equilibrium and cannot be blamed for the mismanagement of fiscal policy at the national level. This is mainly about investment, as clearly explained, for example, by Anne Jensen or Mr Vaughan from Wales, in the name of the stakeholders of the budget.
I am sorry to repeat this on so many occasions but some Members of the Parliament have the habit of making a critical point and leaving before they receive the answer."@en1
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