Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-03-09-Speech-2-124"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-03-09"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040309.6.2-124"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-03-09-Speech-2-1252
lpv:speaker	lp:Sérgio Ribeiro2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2004-02-25--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2004-02-25--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2004-02-16--2004-07-19)3 member; EUL/NGL (2004-02-03--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partido Comunista Português (2004-02-03--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	". In December, Parliament approved the budget for 2004 – both the Community budget for the EU of 15, and, in collaboration with the Council, indicative values for enlargement to ten new Member States. The focus was, therefore, on a Community budget for 25, even though enlargement does not actually take place until May. The aim of this Draft Amending Budget is to establish fixed amounts for the EU of 25. The issue here is not merely technical, yet nor is it primarily procedural. The key issue is the content of the first budget of an EU enlarged to include countries in which average incomes per head are substantially lower than the current EU average; a budget with payment spending raised to the level of inflation; the lowest budget, in real terms, since 1987; a budget that is not only incapable of contributing towards economic and social cohesion, but also institutionalises discrimination towards the new Member States; a budget that sets a bad example of Parliament’s role as a budgetary authority, as, year after year, it accepts cuts and redeployments, which, in spite of worthy protests, tally with the objectives of the ‘Charter of the six’. This budget does not augur well for the 2007/2013 financial framework. It is characterised by political aims that are dominated by the obsession with competitiveness, and in which social issues are replaced by military and security issues. It would be difficult for a budget to be any more explicit."@en1

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