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"The report deals with the Commission’s annual general guidelines for the 2013 budget. The provision of appropriate funding is clearly very important, but where it is possible and necessary to make savings, these saving must actually be made. As a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, I must, unfortunately, note that there are massive cuts to the Development Cooperation Instrument’s geographical programmes for Asia, Central Asia, Iraq, Iran and Yemen. In this area we should be continuing to enhance the results we are trying to achieve in terms of poverty alleviation, democracy and human rights, not weaken them. The next multiannual financial framework must be examined carefully in order to ensure that the budget is implemented as efficiently and effectively as possible. In addition, the European Court of Auditors found in 2010 that the outstanding commitments had increased by nearly 10 % to EUR 194 billion, representing nearly three years of spending at the current rate. I fundamentally believe that the EU budget should be capped. At a time of crisis, an increase is out of the question as far as I am concerned. For these reasons, I voted against this motion for a resolution."@en1
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