Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-10-26-Speech-3-058"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-10-26"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Draft general budget for 2006 (Section III) - Draft general budget for 2006 (Other sections)2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20051026.2.3-058"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-10-26-Speech-3-0592
lpv:speaker	lp:Antonis Samaras2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2007-09-25)3 member; BUDG (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; ECON (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-11-14--2007-02-14)3 unknown; Nea Dimokratia (2004-07-20--2007-09-25)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I wish to make three brief political comments. Firstly, deleting all the appropriations from one sector, such as tobacco, does not reflect the sensitivity which our Parliament has traditionally shown to the weakest groups of society. Secondly, this slender budget, with a 1% limit, does not allow us to exercise policy which is worthy of the ambitions of the Europe we want. Major Community objectives such as competitiveness, economic cohesion, sustainable development, small and medium-sized enterprises, research and innovation – basically, in other words, all the Lisbon objectives – have fallen victim to across-the-board cuts to the budget by the Council. At the same time, however, there have been cuts to the authority of the leaders of Europe themselves, who got everyone's expectations up and then capitulated unconditionally to the philosophy of austerity or, to be precise, to the philosophy of miserliness, not austerity, because austerity is when you cut the excess, when you cut the waste; but when you cut back on investments in the future and in hope, that is not called austerity, it is called miserliness. Thirdly, we have arrived at the point today where we have just EUR 13 million in our emergency fund. When? When all around us nature is avenging itself on man, when the frequency of earthquakes and fatal hurricanes has become the new global nightmare, we have tied our hands together instead of promoting the humanitarian solidarity of Europe internationally. Instead of leading, we are bringing up the rear. The British Presidency may finally agree with the French by the end of the year. With a few painful compromises, it may perhaps close the financial perspectives. However, the idea of Europe will have gone bankrupt, in that, unfortunately, all our ambitious objectives for Europe will have been abandoned. ( )"@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Applause"1

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