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"Mr President, ITER is one of the projects of greatest magnitude for the European Union, not only for its scientific importance, but also for the amount of investment that is required. We have shown our support for this project in the European Parliament on many occasions; we have always been available to both the Council and the Commission for finding the best solutions for this funding issue that has been raised, and there have been several misunderstandings with the Council, but it appears we have finally reached an agreement. With a lot of will and, in particular, engineered accounting, during the 2012 budgetary negotiations and the trialogue on 1 December, we have found a way to fund that extra EUR 1 300 million so that ITER can continue. However, it appears that six countries want to turn the screw even further and have signed a unilateral declaration for the EUR 360 million for 2013 to be funded through cutbacks in other programmes. Firstly, they wanted cutbacks in the Seventh Framework Programme, which was blocked by Parliament as it was clearly connected with the Europe 2020 strategy. Do you recall that strategy? It appears that sometimes, when it comes to money, the existence of this strategy is forgotten. Now, again, they want to propose cutbacks, or rather demand them. Where are these cutbacks to be made? Does it not matter from which programme? It appears that the Council does not mind. It is the case that their strategy is not even to allocate an additional euro: that is the only strategy that the Council knows how to defend. The only strategy we are going to defend is that no programmes can be cut back to fund ITER."@en1
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