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"en.20120313.22.2-577-500"2
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"By defining the general guidelines for the preparation of the 2013 budget, Parliament wanted to focus mainly on support for jobs (especially for young people) and SMEs. These priorities bear a strange resemblance to the priorities Parliament defined for the 2012 budget. Now, the difficulties of the latest budget negotiations are already putting in doubt the result of the discussions that are soon to take place on the drafting of the 2013 budget. Are the budget guidelines merely Parliament’s pious hopes? I fear so, as the negotiations have followed the same tragic route for two years: the draft budget from the Commission, supported by Parliament, undergoes cuts by the Council, which is more interested in reducing its contribution to the EU budget than in the budget’s added-value. This fool’s game has been played since Parliament failed to use its new powers of budgetary codecision to oppose the Council’s sterile wishes in 2010. 2012 will also be the year when the 2014-2020 financial framework is drafted. It will be difficult to prevent the Council’s short-term ‘in times of crisis’ vision from being applied to the definition of the ‘post-crisis’ financial perspectives. We must, however, support an ambitious position, for a Europe in line with the expectations of Europeans."@en1
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