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"Mr President, the tougher the negotiations and the more parties around the table, the greater the temptation to agree to continue what has already been done. Unanimity is necessary. Indeed, there is one thing on which we all agree: the previous agreement. We just need to continue. No one will win, but no one will lose. Everyone will keep their slice of the cake and everyone will avoid losing face. That is what we did previously, despite the efforts of Reimer Böge and our rapporteurs at the time. Today, in fact, the Cypriot Presidency is publishing a document on the ‘resources’ part of the budget. Its reference is the Fontainebleau agreement, approved by the European Council in 1984. That was 28 years ago. The European Union did not exist then. Cyprus and Poland, for example, were not Member States. The economic community was limited to 10 Western states. The Iron Curtain had torn the continent apart. China was struggling to combat widespread famine. The idea of a single European currency was raised only at academic conferences. We are in a new century, we are in a new world, we are in a new Europe. Four successive Treaties have resulted in a significant increase in the competences of the Union, which now has three times as many members. Everything is new, expect the budgetary framework. We have a historic responsibility. Our generation of heads of government, ministers, Commissioners and Members of the European Parliament would be disgraced if Europe found itself in 2020 with a budget whose amount, financing and distribution had been designed to cope with the needs we had 30 years ago."@en1
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