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"en.20120705.19.4-174-000"2
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"We have been vehemently complaining about the small size of the EU budget, particularly as regards cohesion policy and the so-called Structural Funds. For some time, we have been highlighting the limitations of the instruments associated with creating jobs with rights, promoting fair development, aiding environmental protection and supporting productive activity, such as industry, agriculture and fishing. This report informs us of a surplus in the region of EUR 1.497 billion resulting ‘from the rules in force for adjusting the repartition of payments in line with the needs’. The proposal provides that EUR 768 million (51%) of the surplus amount be used to reduce Member States’ contributions to the 2012 Union’s budget, that EUR 337 million (23%) be directed to secure appropriate funding for the Seventh Framework Programme and that EUR 390 million (26%) contribute to meeting upcoming payment claims under cohesion policy. While agreeing with further payment appropriations under cohesion policy, we must note the fact that more than half of the surplus is being returned, while the EU increasingly moves away from the objectives of eliminating the divergences between Member States and between regions, which the crisis has exacerbated. This is yet another demonstration of what the much talked about ‘EU solidarity’ means in practice."@en1
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