Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-07-04-Speech-2-257"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-07-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Draft supplementary and amending budgets (SAB) for 20002
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000704.10.2-257"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-07-04-Speech-2-2582
lpv:speaker	lp:Markus Ferber2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2000-04-03--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern e.V. (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 member; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, fellow members, it may only be July, but today, the European Union and the European Parliament come to the Member States bearing gifts in the form of a supplementary budget refunding EUR 3.2 billion to their original owners. In short, we are not handing out gifts; we are returning the money to its original owners, i.e. the Member States and, at the end of the day, the taxpayers. This shows that we are handling funds properly and the rapporteur, my friend Jean-Louis Bourlanges, has just set the facts of the matter out clearly for us. I should like to extend my warmest thanks to both him and Mr Virrankoski for the supplementary budget, which applies mainly to Parliament and the Council. We are spending funds economically, that is our main job. We are handling funds properly, and that too is our main job. This was a topic which we were able to focus on this morning. Allow me to make one comment to the Council. I hope now the building is finally ready that Mr Solana will at last be able to move in with his work and his top secret documents. We really do have more important things to worry about than how to hide papers from unwanted visitors. That was why I voted passionately in favour of this transfer of funds, so that these technical problems can be solved once and for all and nothing more can stand in the way of a successful European security and defence policy. As far as Parliament is concerned, we have used our supplementary budget to reduce interest payments still further. This gives us room for manoeuvre within the margin which we set for ourselves in category 5 and ensures that we can use the money reasonably and sustainably for parliamentary work and not for interest payments as part of our building policy, which is why the PPE will, of course, be voting in favour of both the Bourlanges and Virrankoski reports."@en1

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