Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-10-26-Speech-3-181"
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"Mr President, I was one of those who appreciated the Presidency’s speech, but I am afraid I was neither seduced nor convinced. I was not convinced there was any prospect of delivery. What the Union needs is not beautiful words, but concrete delivery and for that a multiannual budget is a burning and immediate need.
Two-thirds of the way through this invisible Presidency, we are still where we were in June. Hopes rose in the new Member States. Today they are disappointed and worried because of the gap between promise and performance. Lack of budgetary perspective hampers their efforts and long-term economic programming, and deprives them of the benefits of membership. The 2004 enlargement needs to be equipped with the financial tools to bridge the gap and to sustain social and economic cohesion, based on the principle of solidarity.
In June we heard about political leadership. The expectation of many was that there would be such leadership on budgetary questions. Are we any closer to a satisfactory solution? We heard about a confident Europe looking at enlargement as an historic opportunity to build a greater Union. Can we really have more Europe with less money, if any money at all? Why is the budget not on the agenda at Hampton Court? The EU’s credibility is at stake here. The deadlock needs to be broken. We are running out of time. How to face the challenges of globalisation and the social model? You intend to discuss in Hampton Court whether the Union is equipped with the proper financial instruments. That is putting the cart before the horse. Instead of delivery we have vision. Vision without real content is an illusion, and not much use to our citizens.
There are two months left, President-in-Office, to fulfil the promise to take us forward to the budget deal. Our appeal to you is to use all the skills of the Presidency to deliver a budgetary perspective. There is a Polish proverb: he who gives quickly, gives twice. The European Parliament has delivered a decent, reasonable, bigger budget. This is not ideal but good, better than what the Council is able to deliver, if it can deliver at all. Why can the Council not take it up and approve it? Please think it over."@en1
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