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"The Commissioner has just said that the budget is policy expressed in figures. We are all familiar with this saying, but dear Commissioner, where are the figures in this material? This is what is completely missing. So now I do not know what we are talking about, after all. Mid-term revision. This has also been covered by others before me. Well, we are in the third quarter and I do not know when we will get this revision over with. However, I would like to ask a question here. This is also for the Council. Perhaps it will get to them through the translation. What I would like to say is that we should complete this revision, or whatever we want to call it, this year. In 2011, there will be no point in still fussing about what we wanted to do in 2008, or what we should have done in 2008.
I think we should get on with the next budget framework, which we have already started to some extent. There is serious work going on in Parliament, just like, I think, in the other partner institutions. This work should involve brave reforms. The issue of own resources was raised here. It is really an impossible situation that we are the only parliament in the world that creates a budget and does not feel the burden of it when facing the voters, as it is not us who take away those funds from citizens, but the intermediaries, the national governments.
Do we have to be concerned about the sovereignty of Member States, that the European Parliament itself takes away from citizens and brings here its own expenditures, the joint European expenditures? I know this is a difficult issue. The issue of sovereignty is very important. And there is yet another issue which is very important, Mr President, namely that what we spend should comply with the considerations of subsidiarity, and we should not want to move over here, to a European level, any issues which are up to the Member States. Thank you for your attention."@en1
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