Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-12-01-Speech-4-079-000"

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lpv:document identification number	"en.20111201.4.4-079-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Carl Haglund2
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lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to start by congratulating and thanking our two rapporteurs on behalf of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and also by thanking the Council and the Commission for their excellent cooperation. Our group will also support the compromise that we are to vote on today. It feels positive to be able to say this in view of the fact that, when we previously voted on our negotiating mandate in the autumn, we abstained because, at that time, we believed that we were trying to increase the budget by too much. In the current economic climate, a 5% increase in the budget quite simply would not be justified. Now the budget is increasing by just under 2%, which is a reasonable figure in the economic situation in which we find ourselves right now. Another positive aspect is that we actually succeeded in shifting the expenditure to measures oriented towards the future, namely those already mentioned by Mr Färm, such as research and development, lifelong learning and so on. At the same time, in our external relations, we can also focus on what has happened in North Africa in what has been referred to as the Arab Spring. This requires Europe’s attention, not only in the form of policies, but also in the form of funding. All of this is positive, and it means that we can, in fact, happily vote in favour of this budget today. What causes us a certain amount of concern for the future, however, is the fact that, as has already been said, within the Council, there are those who believe that we do not need to fulfil the agreements that we have entered into. However, we have to pay for what we have already agreed. This is something that cannot be repeated. Last year, we almost failed to reach an agreement on the budget at all. We reached an agreement this year, and that was probably necessary in the current economic climate. Given the mood in the Council, there may well be a great deal of resistance in this context in future, and therefore there is probably reason for certain Member States in the Council to consider just what it is they have agreed on in order to avoid future budget crises in the EU – something that we really do not need with all of these other economic problems."@en1
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