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Mr President, I should like to congratulate Mr Mulder for the very collegiate and cooperative way in which he has worked with other committees, and Mrs Gill for the same reason. The budget lines dealt with by my committee are the most complex of any committee. We cover something like 120 budget lines with reference to ten different directorates-general. Because of that complexity, plus the changes in nomenclature, the activity-based budgeting and enlargement, it has been a difficult task to give an overall view.
I would like to thank the Commission and those staff in its directorates-general who have been patient in their explanations and have explained their rationale for preparing the preliminary draft budget.
I cannot offer the same praise to the Council of Ministers, because in our committee we have seen a whole succession of very large cuts with no rationale whatsoever provided as to why they should have taken place. I find it impossible to work on that basis. You cannot have a dialogue when one side does not explain its reasoning for what it is doing. There may be some sense behind the suggestions, but it is not at all clear to us.
Let me take as one example the preparatory action for security research, of enormous interest to the citizens of Europe. Why has that been cut? I am delighted that Mr Mulder is prepared to support us in reinstating the money which was suggested for this action, which many of us on our committee think is important. We want an explanation about Chernobyl. We lay great emphasis on SMEs, as you will see, and I look forward to some sort of rational discussion with the Council about its motivation for making cuts which appear to contradict every policy of the European Union."@en1
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