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"Mr President, first of all, I would like to echo my fellow Members’ comments and thank and congratulate Mr McCartin on his report. Mr McCartin took on this report at short notice, as I myself was due to draft it, and he has worked on this task in a very able and rigorous manner. His report is a balanced, reasonable and positive piece of work. I would personally like to praise him and I sincerely hope that the report is adopted. Mr McCartin is right to recommend the discharge. The problems raised are not so much problems regarding the timing in the implementation as problems related to an increasing lack of realism, as has been said, between, on the one hand, the financial perspectives that were set in Berlin and the budgetary forecasts that the Commission sets on an annual basis, and, on the other hand, the genuine needs arising from the implementation of the budgets. We must take steps to correct this imbalance.
As regards the Morgan report, I support Mrs Avilés Perea’s comments on the fact that we cannot support the refusal to discharge the Economic and Social Affairs Committee’s budget for the two consecutive financial years since this body made a considerable effort to improve the situation and because it is never a good idea to respond to the positive reform which has got underway by maintaining sanctions. I therefore believe that the committee’s positive efforts call for a positive response on our behalf.
As regards the Virrankoski report, I support the comments Mrs Lulling made earlier on the problems raised by paragraphs 25 and 33 of the resolution. We may well agree to have a single place of work for Parliament in Brussels, but, until the Treaty specifies otherwise, if the Treaty provides for several places of work, it is our duty to ensure that this work can be carried out in the appropriate conditions. Paragraphs 25 and 33, however, seem to insidiously call into question the provisions of the Treaty. Mr Van Hulten told us that the Treaty was desired by one single Member State, so I leave you to draw your own conclusions from this. The Treaty is the expression of a collective will, the expression of political balance and we must all respect this."@en1
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