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"We have voted against a number of points in Mrs Haug’s report on the guidelines for the 2001 budgetary procedure.
The biggest challenge confronting the European Union over the next few years is enlargement to include the countries in Eastern and Central Europe. Enlargement will be an expensive business in many ways. It is therefore important that the EU should set aside large sums in this connection, and not only accession aid. In spite of this, enlargement is not mentioned in Mrs Haug’s report. Instead, “the social and cultural dimension of Europe” is chosen as the most important point to be taken up in the guidelines for the 2001 budget.
We think that the EU should devote its energies to those problems which the Member States cannot solve themselves, that is to say the cross-border issues. Cultural policy and social policy are very important political areas but ought not, on the whole, to be subjects of common legislation.
Aid for the reconstruction of Kosovo is taken up in Mrs Haug’s report as another priority area, which is something we support wholeheartedly. However, we think that the resources needed for Kosovo should be found from the aid given to tobacco cultivation and to other production in the context of the common agricultural policy. As liberals, we believe that agricultural policy should be adapted to the market and made less bureaucratic. If Parliament is serious about enlargement eastwards, efforts must be made to cut back considerably on the costs of agriculture. All direct aid given to agricultural production ought to gradually be abolished.
The EU plays an important role when it comes to employment, especially through the single market. We would nonetheless emphasise that unemployment cannot be reduced only by means of political decisions at European level. We are convinced that measures in the Member States, such as reduced social costs, flexible labour law and a good business climate, are what lead to increased employment and dynamic development throughout the Union."@en1
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