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"I am greatly concerned by the confusion surrounding the 2011 EU budget since, on the one hand, we cannot abandon our ambitious plans to build a strong European Union, while, on the other, Poland will take over the Presidency of the EU Council in the second half of 2011. If the European Union has not adopted a budget by then and still needs to set one every month, it will be very difficult for our Presidency to discharge its duties. We must ask ourselves what is more important: an easy short-term solution, which means giving in to a number of countries and the Presidency, or a more ambitious plan, which may be more difficult but which, in the long term, will make the EU stronger and from which we really will all gain? In my opinion, it is more important for us to build a strong European Union together. A European Union of this kind needs its own resources and a strong budget based on the principle of solidarity in order to fund what is needed. There are several EU Member States, first and foremost the United Kingdom, which do not even wish to discuss this. We cannot afford to give in to national egoisms."@en1
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