Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-10-26-Speech-2-071"

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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	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991026.2.2-071"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-10-26-Speech-2-0722
lpv:speaker	lp:Per Stenmarck2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (1999-10-07--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2002-03-07)3 unknown; Moderata samlingspartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Estonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-07--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, all budget work is about setting priorities. There are grounds for asking the question now and again, “What should the EU’s tasks really be?” It is in fact the answer to this question which ought to guide work on the budget, too. Within a short period, we shall be facing what will probably be the biggest round of enlargement of the EU ever. It is a prerequisite of enlargement that there should be extensive changes to the budget and that we should begin to make these changes right now. This ought to involve making cuts right now in Category 1. We can begin this work by reducing the tobacco subsidy, among other things, and in such a way that it can be abolished completely within a ten-year period. A number of so-called unforeseen expenses have arisen in the course of the year’s work on the budget, and this means large demands for increased expenditure in Category 4. Humanitarian efforts to help refugees or victims of war in Kosovo, people injured in the earthquake in Turkey or innocent people hit by events in East Timor have obviously led to demands being made upon the European Union. As I see it, it must be an obvious objective successfully to deal with these matters too within the frameworks which we ourselves have been involved in setting up. That is where the important issue of prioritising comes into the picture. We have budget frameworks in the form of an interinstitutional agreement, signed less than six months ago. In my view, it would be extraordinarily unfortunate if this should need to be cancelled. I am in fact proceeding on the assumption that it will be possible for this issue to be solved jointly by the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers before the second round of discussions."@en1

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