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Mr President, I too should like to congratulate both rapporteurs on the result achieved and also on the speeches they gave here this afternoon. However, I have to admit that I still feel slightly resentful about the Council’s result. I am pleased with the final, positive result, but on the other hand, why did the Council present such an unacceptable initial proposal? It truly seemed as if the members of the Council were, once again, behaving like little boys running riot with cap pistols, as I expressed it a number of years ago. Fortunately, everything got straightened out, for we would have had major problems with the whole of the budget on account of heading 3. I really fail to understand how the Council dares present proposals of this kind. In my opinion, we have made a rather considerable concession with regard to payments. I believe that we should monitor this more closely in future. The Council seems to have taken an interest in this, and it may be wise to be a little less generous next time than we were this year. But that is a matter for next year.
I should like to highlight that, in future, we will be extremely short of cash in Headings 3, 4 and 5. We subscribe to what the Commissioner referred to, namely how relatively little the Union is currently spending. We must, of course, also bear in mind that as soon as new Member States join, the outlook will change immediately. We are therefore putting some savings away for the future.
Another point which causes great concern, in my view, is the Council’s attitude towards projects which could improve employment. The issue surrounding Galileo springs to mind, which has caused great difficulty. All other points which cost money from the EU budget and which can contribute to better economic performances in the coming year – and there are quite a few of those – have been systematically discouraged, and if we do not sufficiently appreciate this, we will really end up in a recession. If we see what the Americans are currently doing, how much money they are prepared to pour into their recession, we do not have to copy all of this, but we can move slightly in that direction and manage our funds wisely."@en1
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