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The rapporteur recalls the low level of payments set and accepts the trend of reducing the EU budget’s share of Community GNI/GNP. Given this situation, with the systematic increase in priorities and with the savings policy that has been pursued – inseparable from the Stability Pact and which contains the systematic practice of cuts, freezes, call-backs, redeployment and reprogramming of budgetary expenditure – consequences that are damaging to the implementation levels of the EU’s traditional priorities are inevitable, especially in the social fields and those of cohesion and cooperation. The very credibility of the budgetary process is also undermined.
We are now seeing further problems with defining priorities, such as that given to the Lisbon strategy, or to issues of immigration and asylum.
The rapporteur also concedes on the need for changes to national budgetary policy when he accepts the current framework of financial perspectives and even the existing limitations in internal and external policies. He does so to the point of contradicting himself, where Afghanistan is concerned, stating on the one hand, that he would not reduce support for other regions but then says, on the other hand, that he intends to evaluate the possibilities of redeploying the budget and of making it more flexible.
Furthermore, priority is still not being given to Palestine ..."@en1
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