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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we set to work on the basis of the Communication and the proposals from the Commission. In order to be able to press on with our work, we do of course need answers to the questions that this House’s President has just addressed. In fact, Commissioner, there are plenty of discussions and rumours afoot, and perhaps today’s debate will help clarify matters. For example, you told a meeting of the Temporary Committee that the agriculture policy was a relic of the nineteenth century. If that is the case, why is there no proposal from the Commission to change it? Or does it not after all contribute something to the Lisbon strategy and to sustainability, in view of the current state of play where decisions on agricultural reform are concerned? Commissioner Verheugen has said that, in order to make a success of Lisbon, we need more responsibility and greater commitment from the Member States, but we see it as also involving the question of added value for Europe, of whether Lisbon is meant to implement the Budget more vigorously, particularly in connection with the programmes that bring Europe added value, in research and the multiannual education programmes. Then, we hear reports of internal discussions even at this early stage about the possibility of moving away from the 1.14%, and then someone puts forward the idea that 1.06%, or 1.07%, would be a workable compromise, so let me, as rapporteur, make it perfectly clear that nobody in the other institutions should imagine that Parliament is prepared to negotiate below the margins set as a network by Article 272 of the Treaty. Let me add that this is without taking account of the European Development Fund, which adds another 0.03% and has, for the first time, been included in the figure of 1.14% in the Commission proposal and hence also in the Budget.
Commissioner, you described a crisis situation featuring all the things that can happen if agreement fails to be achieved. We want agreement, and that is why, yet again today, we insist on a monthly trilogue capable of ensuring that difficult chapters are not left to be dealt with at the end of the procedure, but rather that issues of flexibility, duration of the Financial Perspective and many points of substance can be discussed in good time and considered jointly as part of a permanent dialogue between the institutions."@en1
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