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As in previous budgetary procedures when we had many reasons to immediately reject them at first reading, we can say that, with regard to the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2009, we have even more reasons to reject it.
The Council clearly views the next budget in exactly the same light as it did the previous ones. In other words, it plans to use this instrument to continue supporting the EU’s neoliberal policy. We should not really expect anything else.
This budgetary procedure, once again, provides clear evidence of the EU’s intended response to the worsening capitalist crisis, triggered by the financial crisis at the very heart of the system, in other words in the US. Neither the Commission, nor the EP, nor the Council have put forward any measures in the EU budget which will effectively respond to the needs and growing difficulties of workers and the general population, micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises and a large part of the productive sector.
At the precise moment when the structural crisis in the European Union is getting worse, the Council has reduced payments to an ‘unprecedentedly low level’, by nearly EUR 9 billion compared to the forecast in the Multiannual Financial Framework.
This is why we have voted against."@en1
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