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"Mr President, I actually wanted to address my remarks mainly to the President-in-Office, Mr Mavroyiannis, who is facing a whole session with all the Member States tomorrow and the day after. No doubt tomorrow this will involve more horse trading to keep all the Member States happy. Less money to a great many and then something on content to keep a few other countries on board.
Who will lose out from this horse trading? The content, the future. What is the EU budget for? The EU budget is for the future, for the real challenges facing the EU, and one of the most important challenges is the scarcity of raw materials, energy, food and materials. Those are the kind of issues that are the challenge for the future and our budget is really needed for that. For innovation, for energy infrastructure, for agriculture, for the Structural Fund, where we invest in energy-saving, in sustainable energy.
These are just the areas that are being cut now, the areas where we are getting cost-cutting now. All to keep countries happy which are only working on the amount of the budget and so the content loses out, as does Europe’s future."@en1
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