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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the Committee on Citizens’ Freedoms, I would also like to congratulate the general rapporteur, Mr Costa Neves. I also want to offer congratulations and thanks to all my colleagues on the Committee on Budgets. It is a rare privilege – and I can measure its worth as a committee rapporteur – to be able to say that the Committee on Budgets accepted all the demands we had made, they were, of course, legitimate and carefully considered, and which were put forward in Parliament at second reading. So I want to thank the general rapporteur and all the members of the Committee on Budgets.
That said, I would like to address the Council more directly, address the intelligence of the Council, if I dare put it that way, knowing that Mr Vande Lanotte is bound to understand what I mean. Four years ago, the European Parliament proposed setting up a European fund for refugees, an idea that the Council angrily struck off the list at second reading. No European refugee fund. Four years have passed and now the Council has just proposed more money than we ourselves had even asked for the European refugee fund it had refused to create. It took the Council all of four years to understand, to become responsible and, with respect, to show some intelligence.
Another example: for several years now we have included a Schengen list at the budget’s first reading, because for several years we have wanted some of its aspects to be communitised and financed from the Community budget. Each year the Council would angrily strike off the Schengen heading at second reading. This time, the Council needs the Schengen heading we had introduced because it has to finance SIS II and has decided to finance it on a Community basis.
That brings me to the third problem. We decided – Parliament did so at first reading and will do so at second reading – to vote to enter EUR 5 million under the Europol heading to combat terrorism. The Council did not accept this at second reading. I would ask the President-in-Office of the Council to do the impossible and to create the necessary legal basis and agreements. I would ask it to use this money without waiting four years, because the terrorists for their part will not wait that long."@en1
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