Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-12-01-Speech-3-071"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-12-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Financial perspectives2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20041201.11.3-071"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-12-01-Speech-3-0722
lpv:speaker	lp:Bárbara Dührkop Dührkop2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Partido Socialista Obrero Español (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; CONT (2004-09-16--2007-01-14)3 vice-chair; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and to the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; LIBE (2004-07-21--2004-12-15)3 member; Delegation for relations with Canada (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; Temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007-2013 (2004-10-14--2005-06-08)3 member; BUDG (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, I would like to take the precaution of saying that it is always possible to be frank with friends. I agree with previous speakers, but I am not going to expand on that; I would like to focus on other issues. The news reaching us from the Council is at times imprecise and partial, often because that institution tends to be rather secretive. I believe, therefore, that this oral question is useful to us in terms of clarifying certain issues. We all know that certain Member States have asked that payment appropriations for the next financial perspectives be below a certain percentage of the Union’s gross national product. We have also heard rumours that other States defend that maximum, but applied to commitment appropriations, although it is not clear whether they are doing so in order to test the waters or whether they are truly convinced that that is sufficient to cover the real needs of the European Union. It appears that some people have the fundamental political objective of getting their minimal proposals accepted and then imposing ‘the necessary cuts’ in order to achieve those minimums. Could you tell us, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, whether this method consisting of setting limits on resources and then making cuts also corresponds to a method you use in your deliberations? If this is the case, it does not frighten us, because we suffer the same thing every year when we approve the draft annual budget. This is what in English is known as the ‘building block’ method, which has prevailed in your work to date, and what has been the result? Furthermore, in the letter signed jointly last December by those six States, we are assured of the following, which I would like to read in English, since it is the original language of the document:"@en1

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