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"On behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, I too should like to thank the rapporteurs who have worked so hard, within all the confines, to bring this budget to a successful end. Incidentally, we held a very extensive debate yesterday on the issue of the three percent, and Mr Prodi should, in my view, simply advise all countries to adopt the EU’s budgetary system, for if they were to do this, they would never suffer any shortages again and always have surpluses. This is the problem we are facing: the system is such that surpluses always arise. Countries can easily adopt this system, but the only problem is, of course, that certain wishes cannot be met. The system is ruthless and we have to live with it.
In my view, we have come up with a number of sound solutions to make the system more workable than it has been in the past. After all, we can protest loudly at a lack of funding, but if you consider what is returned to the Member States, then this always strikes me as a little strange. We should do something about this. This has also been laid down in the interinstitutional agreement, and this should also be taken into consideration. We must simply be able to manage the funding we have at the moment better and not commit everything without giving it a moment’s consideration.
We are reasonably pleased with the outcome of, and particularly with the project on, mobility for the elderly which was included in this budget at the instigation of Mr Podestà. I am unhappy about one point, namely the way in which foundations – and I am mainly referring to the foundation in Dublin – are being treated. If the costs in one country rise faster than in the rest of the EU, there is a certain rule in the Community that provides for this. This is the way it is. It is impossible for the Committee on Budgets, and especially the person responsible in the Committee on Budgets, to say in such cases: 'Oh no, this does not concern us at all; we simply do not give this money; they will have to draw on their own reserves'. These reserves do not exist, which is just as well. This is only a minor point and I do not want to spend too much time talking about it, but it is still important that we do something about it."@en1
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