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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as the PPE member responsible for Parliament’s budget, I also want to offer warm thanks to my colleague Derek Vaughan for the close and very fruitful cooperation we have had with all the other shadow rapporteurs. Although Croatia is now also a Member, which has imposed extra costs on the European Parliament, we have managed to stand by a 1.9 % rise, i.e. one that is actually below the normal rate of inflation. To that end, we have also made clear savings in a very wide variety of sectors, which means that we have managed to adopt a draft budget for the European Parliament that is also agreed with the Commission or in line with the Commission’s views.
At the same time, however, I would ask those colleagues who may not mean any wrong but basically think we need more and more cuts to the European Parliament’s budget to remember that MEPs must be able to operate under proper working conditions and must also have the chance to review the documents presented by the Commission and proposals such as those put forward by the Member States at the European summit, and then in the end to be able to live with them. We need a competent Parliament, which is why we also need sensible, good and solid funding."@en1
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