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As is the case every year, the second October part-session is principally devoted to the adoption of the Community Budget. This is the only area in which Parliament can influence Community policy, as it possesses the power of codecision with the Council and, above all, has the right of veto. In a Europe where technocracy reigns and the democratic deficit prevails, it is, therefore, one of the few powers exercised by representatives elected by universal suffrage.
Just like last year’s budget, the 2002 budget is a reflection of the free-market. As a Budget, it is characterised by austerity (0.3 % of European GDP), with an overall lack of financial resources, especially for employment policy, enlargement, and the management of crises, whether they be in food supplies, Afghanistan, Palestine or the Balkans.
The rapporteur, Mr Costa Neves, rubber-stamps these tendencies as a whole by proposing an increase in payment appropriations – which is something of a positive step – but, at the same time, proposes the allocation to reserve of structural funds and somewhat
obscure transfers from operations to administration – which is rather a backward move
For these reasons, we cannot support either the report or the 2002 draft Budget."@en1
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