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"Madam President, I would like to pick up straight away on what Ms Damanaki said at the end of her speech. Her wording was diplomatic and cautious, but it concerned the commitment to the results of the trialogue. That is exactly what we expect from the Commission, because anyone who does not use their right of initiative correctly under the terms of the agreement will lose their privileges. Therefore, I am assuming that the Commission will apply its right of initiative on the basis of the spirit and the content of the trialogue results. I also assume that certain Member States will not attempt to exert pressure at that point, which could potentially result in the entire structure being destroyed again, because we have only been able to agree on this over three stages and this is the way that we have negotiated it.
In the debate in the Committee on Budgets, we also attempted to look in detail at the management problems mentioned by Mr Paška. We are hoping that this situation will improve in future. It is true that there have been omissions and errors in this area. I would also like to warn the Commission and the Council that before they make international promises like the one made by the Council to the international research community on ITER involving EUR 6.5 billion, which includes the EUR 1.3 billion additional funding, they should speak to Parliament, which is part of the budgetary authority. I would like to remind them that Ms Ferrero-Waldner always took a very positive and constructive approach to consulting with the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Budgets on foreign policy matters. As a result, it was possible to resolve some of the areas of conflict in advance during the course of a sensible discussion.
Finally, Madam Vice-President, I would like to touch on what Mr Ehler mentioned concerning the long-term perspective. We need to make it clear that if we want large projects, whether it is ITER or Galileo, or whatever it might be, we must understand what funding is available for specific periods, so that we do not constantly have to deal with the problem of additional financing. These projects also belong in the European budget, but they must have appropriate funding, so that we can avoid the chaos of the last two years, which always seems to accompany essential large-scale projects of this kind.
Against that background, I would like to ask my fellow Members to vote in favour of the report tomorrow, with the relevant comments that we will submit, but also to make it clear how we plan to resolve the problem of the forthcoming EUR 360 million in the 2013 budget."@en1
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