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There are two elements that characterise this budget for 2004:
it is going to be the budget for enlargement of the EU to ten new countries with per capita incomes of roughly 40% of the Community average. We shall have a rise in inequalities within the EU and greater needs in the economic and social cohesion field;
conversely, it is going to be the lowest Community budget since 1987 in relative terms, that is, 0.98% of the Community GNI in 2004, less than EUR 100 thousand million, when it could be up to 1.06% of the Community GNI. It is no accident that the size of the budget has been getting smaller since 1997. This budget not only underfinances enlargement to the detriment of economic and social cohesion, but it also gives a clear signal about the Community’s future financial framework.
It is regrettable that the European Parliament should have approved this path so far, accepting in the current process a growth in payment appropriations of only 2.3%, which will penalise execution, a reduction in payment appropriations for the Structural Funds, a financial package for the codecision programmes that falls short of what is needed, and the financing of Iraqi reconstruction to the detriment of cooperation and development in other regions of the world. That is why I voted against it."@en1
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