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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	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991026.2.2-058"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-10-26-Speech-2-0592
lpv:speaker	lp:Mogens Camre2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Dansk Folkeparti (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Latvia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-30--2001-01-30)3 vice-chair; UEN (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; CONT (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (1999-09-30--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Budget 2000 contains some technical improvements while an attempt has been made to do away with the usual over-budgeting for structural arrangements. Over-budgeting is an unsound budgeting practice, and it is important that it should disappear completely from the EU’s budget. I have noted the Council’s savings in regard to both structural arrangements and the agricultural sphere. These I support, even though they only constitute a small beginning when it comes to the required changes to the EU’s financial arrangements. In a changing world, we must be in a position to make adjustments to the budget far more quickly so that, without increasing the overall budget, we might meet any new needs including, first and foremost, the development needs of the new Member States in Eastern Europe but also the need for emergency aid and reconstruction in the Balkans, which ought not to be financed through cutbacks in support to the Third World. Overall, the EU has no need for more money but, rather, a need to use the existing money more sensibly. I want to emphasise that a more professional and accountable administration of the EU’s financial resources will provide rich opportunities to get more out of the same amount of money. Everywhere, there is a need for activity-based budgeting. More cost-conscious administration must be implemented and the wastefulness of which we have again and again seen examples and which the Court of Auditors’ reports have revealed for a number of years must be eliminated if the EU’s citizens are at all going to be able to regard the EU’s institutions as serious partners in the development of Europe."@en1

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