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"Mr President, at first reading, my group performed the symbolic political act of tabling a resolution rejecting the budget. We wanted to draw attention to the characteristics, unacceptable in our view, of the draft submitted to us at that time. We stood by the principle that there should be new appropriations for new policies. Instead of the intended redeployments, detrimental to the traditional priorities, we called for the multi-annual revision of the financial perspective, especially for external actions, although a similar problem arises for expenditure on employment and environmental protection. We decided – and we make no bones about it – that we did not want the Council putting us in a position tomorrow where we have to choose between two priorities that are equally legitimate in our eyes: the Balkans and the Mediterranean.
We are now in precisely the situation we wanted to avoid. Under the terms of the compromise concluded between Parliament’s delegation and the Council, Euro-Mediterranean cooperation suffers a cut of EUR 200 million compared with the budget for 2000. A fine signal to send our close partners in the South. As for the Balkans, they have given rise to an arduous and very precarious financial set-up. This includes a transfer, to the 2001 budget, of 2000 budget appropriations for aid to Latin America, or appropriations for Morocco under the draft fisheries agreement and not used this year. In addition, and above all, the problem of financing for the Balkans will still be there in its entirety for the years ahead. Heading 3, internal actions, also warrants a comment, since the ‘employment initiative’, re-baptised the ‘Spirit of Enterprise programme’ has been amputated to the tune of EUR 87 million, the Trans-European Networks by EUR 23 million, and environmental protection by EUR 42 million.
In total, with about 1.09% of European gross domestic product, or even less, the 2001 budget will be one of the lowest of the last ten years, in relative terms, since it is well below the already very restrictive ceiling established under Agenda 2000 in Berlin in March 1999. That is why the Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left unfortunately cannot support Mrs Haug’s report."@en1
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