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"We welcome the fact that the appropriation for combating HIV/AIDS is up by approximately EUR 200 million, or 60%, on the Council’s proposal. This shows that Parliament really does want to comply with the commitments we made when the Global Health Fund was set up.
In general, we Swedish Christian Democrats share Parliament’s negotiating position on the issue of the budget. There are nonetheless a number of points of widely differing character that we should particularly like to comment on.
We believe that, before we can approve the whole of the proposed amount, it is important for the Commission to be able to clarify how the aid for Israel and Palestine is to be used. By approving, therefore, only half of the appropriation in the present situation, we are exerting pressure in the right direction.
It is encouraging that a start is being made on phasing out the subsidies for the transport of live animals, even though we should have preferred to have seen them removed completely.
We are sorry, however, that the aid for East Timor is being reduced, since the country is still in a phase of consolidation in the immediate aftermath of its declaration of independence. We believe it is wrong to provide subsidies, to the tune of EUR 7 million, to European parties until such time as there is a legal basis for doing so, and we regret that the proposal to remove the appropriation was voted down by 393 votes to 76. We were also in favour of a feasibility study for a civil peace corps, something which was, however, rejected."@en1
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