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"Mr President, listen in on this debate, and you hear the cry of ‘more’, ‘more’, ‘more’ on every side. I, too, am in favour of ‘more’, but of more efficiency and transparency, whether we are talking about the Lisbon strategy or security policy. After all, we would have the money if we were, once and for all, to tackle the huge sacred cows that lurk in the Parliamentary budget and, of course, particularly in this enormous Budget, which runs to hundreds of billions of euros.
Let me just make two points about it. Transparency would also mean making it plain how the political parties are now to be funded, a question to which first reading provided no unambiguous answer. Transparency would also mean another vote on the secretarial allowance, which is now again to be surreptitiously increased. Unfortunately, though, there is not going to be one. So you cannot be surprised at the perception that the Budget is about haggling, and that you, Commissioner, are described as someone who had conceded a billion euros an hour. No proper budget can be drawn up in this fashion; what is needed is explanation and change."@en1
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