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dcterms:Date	"2012-10-22"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2013 - all sections (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20121022.19.1-054-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-10-22-Speech-1-055-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Alain Lamassoure2
lpv:spokenAs	chair; BUDG (2012-01-25--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Canada (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2012-01-25--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with India (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; AFCO (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP (2009-07-21--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, we are tackling the 2013 budget with both a political objective and a methodological objective. The political objective is to fund those commitments already made, and in particular to give positive follow-up to the growth pact which was adopted by the European Council in June. Last week, the European Council drew attention to the slowness of its implementation. From our point of view, its implementation presupposes a minimum budgetary amount, concentration on research and development programmes, university exchanges and innovation under Heading 1a. We also have a methodological objective: to treat payment appropriations from the technical rather than the political point of view. The level of the payments has soured the budgetary debate for the past three years. It should never have become a political problem, and if it has become one, this is because the administrative machinery was badly designed. It is not working properly in the national capitals, between the national capitals and Brussels, and even in Brussels itself. Here in Parliament we are making a specific proposal: to ask each country to centralise its requests for payment within a single authority. That central authority would verify the level of need, would certify it, make it public and convey it officially to Brussels. The Commissioner would not have to do anything more than make additions. Then the political authorities, Ministers on the one hand and Members of Parliament on the other, would negotiate again regarding the real political dimension of the budget, in other words the commitment appropriations. As we sit here talking, programmes as important as the Social Fund, rural development, innovation, the framework research programme and Erasmus are having their payments stopped. As Commissioner Lewandowski said, we cannot leave the Union in a situation which no government wanted and which no citizen can understand."@en1
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