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Madam President, there are three issues in this debate to which I would like to draw attention.
Firstly, the level of inflation in individual EU countries is rising sharply, and as a result the average level of inflation across the EU will be around 4% in 2008, so indexing expenditure at 2% annually actually means a fall in expenditure.
Secondly, one consequence of adopting the Treaty of Lisbon will be a marked increase in the powers of the European Parliament, the codecision procedure in all areas, and also the powers of the Member States’ parliaments, which will cause a sharp increase in the European Parliament’s functioning costs.
Thirdly and finally, 2009 is a year of European Parliament elections. So far the turnout for these elections has been exceptionally low, particularly in the new Member States. Additional expenditure is therefore needed for an information campaign aimed chiefly at regional and local media, through which the electorate can be most effectively reached."@en1
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