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"Mr President, I welcome in the name of the Commission the position of Parliament on the guidelines for 2013 and, what is more, I agree with the major points as presented by the rapporteur, Giovanni La Via.
Let us hope that this time, we are drawing on the lessons of experience and I count very much upon the wisdom of the people elected by the people, here in Parliament.
Indeed, properly shaping the last budget of the multiannual perspective 2007-2013 is quite a challenge, as is shaping it in the context of overall consolidation of national finances.
Nowadays, austerity and consolidation are not the only dimensions of the economic debate in Europe. What is next and what is equally important is how to boost investment, how to boost employment opportunities, especially for the younger generation, and how to support small and medium-sized companies in Europe.
Here is the place and here is the added value of the European budget and here is the perspective we should also seek for the European budget in the discussions over 2013.
In order to properly shape the budget for 2013, we should take into account the logic of the multiannual perspective. It is a very well known logic.
Everything is moving late, but moving at cruising speed at the end of the financial perspective, and we should remember, as mentioned by the rapporteur, the lesson of 2011. Another important lesson is the full implementation of commitments and payments, but also more than 100% consumption and implementation in many areas, for example, competitiveness and innovation – 135% implementation; lifelong learning – 107%; Social Fund – 111% of what was assumed for 2011. There is also the lesson of reimbursements. Bills for reimbursement came late in December. The inability of the Commission to pay what it should pay for legitimate projects in several countries is also affected by the crisis.
We are not able, due to the shortage of money, to repay Rome over EUR 2 billion, to repay Madrid more than EUR 2 billion and to repay more than EUR 1 billion to Athens. This is an important lesson for drawing up our draft budget for 2013 and, I think, for the conciliation procedure of 2013. There is also inflexibility over financial regulation; that is, the inability to transfer what is underspent to what should be spent at the end of the year. These are the reasons for the cash-flow problem today and it cannot be repeated next year with the accumulation of all sorts of problems.
Therefore, in 2013, we should be equally sensitive to negative priorities, that is, what is under-implemented, but also how to boost the growth opportunities and investment opportunities for the younger generation via existing means at our disposal. Additionally, we have to find a place for ITER financing and we also have to accommodate Croatia joining as Member State Number 28 as from July 2013.
Therefore, concerning the area of savings and to prove that we are really taking into account all sorts of things in the environment of today’s Europe, we must consider administration. That is why we should not grow in administration. In the Commission, we are starting the programme of annual cuts, not waiting for the next financial perspective but starting for 2013 – 1% cuts in the administration of the Commission every year."@en1
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