Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-10-26-Speech-3-047-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2011-10-26"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20111026.3.3-047-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-10-26-Speech-3-048-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Carl Haglund2
lpv:spokenAs	member; BUDG (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2009-07-20--2012-07-04)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2012-07-04)3 substitute; ECON (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 vice-chair; PECH (2009-07-20--2012-01-18)3 unknown; Svenska folkpartiet (2009-07-14--2012-07-04)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to start by thanking our rapporteurs, who have done an excellent job so far. However, we are far from finished with these budget negotiations and we still have some very difficult negotiations with the Council ahead of us. The fact is that the level of expenditure that we now have on the table is something that the Member States will not accept. This means that we need to find a common viewpoint. This is also something that I have emphasised in my capacity as the person responsible for the 2012 budget on behalf of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and we would have liked to have seen a lower level of expenditure. We also proposed cuts in the budget that we, unfortunately, did not receive support for in the votes in the Committee on Budgets. That is also the reason why we will probably abstain in the vote on the resolution today. The positive aspect is that we are in the process of shifting the main focus to what is referred to as Europe 2020, where we have higher costs for, and possibilities to invest in, research, development, innovation and so on. This is good, but at the same time we ought to realise that the economic situation will not allow the budget to increase to whatever we happen to want it to be. We therefore need to be able to prioritise, and this, unfortunately, is where Parliament’s weakness lies. We are good at finding new ways to spend money, but not nearly as good at finding ways to save it. In this regard, we had hoped that we would be able to conduct a more constructive debate on where we could spend less. We did not succeed in doing so, and this will be a challenge ahead of the negotiations with the Council."@en1
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