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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the first good news here is that there is an agreement between the Council and Parliament. This will allow the EU to continue to be functional in the upcoming year as well. Furthermore, as a Hungarian, I can say that the lines that are most important to us remained essentially untouched as compared to the Commission’s original proposal. The functioning of agricultural policy has been ensured. In the convergence line, there is an almost nine per cent increase. We could argue whether this is much or little, but at any rate, it is more or less realistic.
There are smaller items for us to be happy about, such as the EUR 9 million increase in funds that can be spent on school milk, a very successful programme. Moreover, we can also be happy about things that do not require any money, or at least no additional money, such as the adoption of the proposal to allocate resources to the conservation, maintenance and development of endangered languages under cultural funds.
Naturally, there are negative aspects as well. There is our debate with the Council about whether the entire European budget can be involved, or needs to be involved, in the process of resolving the crisis. We believe that there is much, much more that could be done in this regard. Still, if I were to weigh the positive and negative aspects against each other I would not even use the metaphor of the glass that is half empty or half full. Our glass is a good 80% full, and the remaining 20% require further efforts over the coming years. I hope that we will be able to achieve this similar to how we were able to achieve the progress made so far. The Group of the European People’s Party will obviously endorse this budget."@en1
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