Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-10-26-Speech-2-036"

Predicate	Value (sorted: default)
rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-10-26"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EC and ECSC budgets for 20002
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991026.2.2-036"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-10-26-Speech-2-0372
lpv:speaker	lp:Florence Kuntz2
lpv:spokenAs	member; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2001-03-14)3 unknown; Rassemblement pour la France (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; UEN (1999-07-20--2001-03-14)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the budgetary procedure for the year 2000 is henceforth included within the strict financial framework with the regulated expenditure for the period 2000-2006, as accepted by this House in the interinstitutional agreement. If the same stringency in budgetary matters prevails as much at the level of the States as in the Union, here it is chiefly a response to the demands of some Member States, and we know that the first victim of this stringency will be the common agricultural policy. A gradual decrease of expenditure is being organised deliberately, to the detriment of farmers. As regards the Structural Funds, European regional policy has become a real handicap for France, contrary to the myth complacently propounded by some, including, alas, the current Commissioner responsible for regional policy. On the subject of foreign policy, we are of course in favour of the fisheries agreement with Morocco, an essential agreement in European-Mediterranean relations, which are too often neglected by the Union. We are also in favour of financial support for East Timor and of aid for Turkey in the aftermath of the earthquakes. As for aid for Kosovo, let us one last time deplore the bombing of a European State by the countries of the Union. Yesterday we bombed the Balkans and today we must help to reconstruct the region and re-establish peace, but this means re-establishing peace for everyone, including the Kosovo Serbs. We can indeed clearly see what this increase in the total appropriation for foreign policy actions foreshadows. The austerity that the Financial Perspective herald will in fact be a sort of selective austerity: foreign policy rather than agricultural policy. The significant weakening of agricultural policy and the dubious regional policy are elements that our group could not possibly accept. And if there were further need, paragraph 20 of Mr Bourlanges’ resolution, which considers the distinction between compulsory expenditure and non-compulsory expenditure to be seriously anachronistic, would be sufficient to justify our rejection of the budget."@en1

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