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lpv:speaker	lp:María Muñiz De Urquiza2
lpv:spokenAs	chair; Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2012-03-28)3 unknown; Partido Socialista Obrero Español (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; BUDG (2010-09-06--2012-01-18)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2009-09-16--2012-03-28)3 member; S&D (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; AFET (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo (2009-09-16--2013-01-06)3
lpv:translated text	"− Mr President, the Commission’s suggestion that the 2012 budget should limit its increase to the absolute minimum necessary to meet the EU’s legal commitments would mean freezing the European Union, and the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament cannot agree with that. Enlargement and the Instrument for Stability must also receive the funding they need, as should multilateral issues such as the European Union’s contribution to UN Women. Just one more second, Mr President, to say that it should also be possible for us to be flexible in our use of the budget. We believe in Europe, we believe in its policies and the need to finance them, because, Commissioner, the EU is not an expense but rather an added value for national policies. As noted by the rapporteur, we fully agree that the budget should be aimed at achieving the EU 2020 strategy, competitiveness and employment, but this major concern must not further distract us from the chronic underfunding of the Union’s external action. It is incompatible with the goal of the European Parliament, the Commission and the Council for the Union to be a prominent global player with an inflation increase of barely 2.9%. The proposal that has been made makes it difficult to meet the public’s demands and fulfil our responsibility to promote peace, development, international stability and human rights in the world. I shall focus on the points that are of concern to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Firstly, the review of the European Neighbourhood Policy, particularly its Mediterranean dimension, must be reflected in the budget. To begin with, Commissioner, with regard to Palestine, the Middle East peace process and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the Commission’s proposal suggests a budget cut of EUR 100 million. I believe that peace in the Middle East is sensitive enough, and UNRWA’s work important enough, not to be subjected, year after year, to the Commission’s game of proposing lower figures which then rise during the negotiation on budgetary procedure. The Mediterranean area is very important, Commissioner, but not to the detriment of other areas of the European Union’s external action. An example of this is Latin America and its notorious underfunding. As well as that infamous underfunding there is a deadlock of funds for countries that could benefit from the Industrialised Countries Instrument (ICI+) but – and I shall finish now, Mr President – are unable to do so because there is no solution to the problem of the legal basis for this instrument."@en1
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