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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Parliament is going to accept this Supplementary and Amending Budget practically in the form in which it has been delivered by the other institution. We accept that we are dealing here with a genuine budgetary emergency. We need this extra EUR 900 million in order to implement the plan which the Commission has drawn up to combat BSE. Above all, we must make our cattle farmers and public aware that the European Union is a common solution to their problems. We would do irreversible harm to the process of European integration if we did not find a common response to this general crisis, which is the first truly general crisis in the Union. And this response must be first and foremost a financial one. Later on we can discuss when we must apply all the principles of Agenda 2000 in the field of agriculture, but now – and I say this again – is not the time to be talking about the future of the common agricultural policy. Now we have to offer real responses, financial responses. We have to help European cattle farming with hard euros. This is not the time to be discussing cofinancing rates, and there is therefore a majority in this House which, in principle, rejects the budgetary amendments to the Haug report, despite the opinion of certain people such as Mr Stenmarck.
There is still one outstanding financial issue: will there be sufficient money in Category 1 for additional measures when they become necessary for the month of May? Agenda 2000 establishes a multiannual budgetary framework, which has been approved unanimously in the Council and by a sufficient majority in the European Parliament. Would this not therefore be the time to say why the real budget for 2001 is, by a considerable percentage, less than that approved in the Berlin Financial Perspective for this year? I would also like to say that perhaps the true financial debate does not lie in seeking an impossible revision of the Financial Perspective approved in Berlin, but in complying with the budget that was actually promised there. I believe that that would be a truly European response."@en1
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