Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-12-14-Speech-2-293"

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dcterms:Date	"2004-12-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Financial perspective (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20041214.15.2-293"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-12-14-Speech-2-2942
lpv:speaker	lp:Konstantinos Hatzidakis2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2007-09-18)3 member; Temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007-2013 (2004-10-14--2005-06-08)3 unknown; Nea Dimokratia (2004-07-20--2007-09-18)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-08-31--2007-02-14)3 member; REGI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; IMCO (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I should like to make three comments on the issue which we are debating. First, I welcome the fact that nearly all the honourable Members who have spoken considered that the European Union budget should be commensurate with the ambitions tabled from time to time by both the Commission and Parliament, because it is a fact that policy without money is not possible. What I find particularly negative is the fact that the size of the budget is being discussed and there are tendencies to make cutbacks at a time when, even if the Commission proposal were accepted, this would be the equivalent of the European Union's spending a total of 2.5% of all annual public expenditure in Europe, because that is what we are talking about at a time when we have ambitions, as I said, for important and serious things. Secondly, I should like a clarification on the part of the Commissioner as to what is going to happen in connection with the future of the Structural Funds if no decision is taken by the end of this year, because there is a multiannual aspect to Structural Fund policies, there is the problem of creating what may be a legal lacuna, which will prevent the programmes from starting on 1 January 2007. How could this be addressed, Commissioner? The third issue on which I wish to comment concerns the cost of enlargement, given that enlargement comes at a price which we have to pay, because it is a major historic choice of the European Union; on the other hand, however, this price needs to be distributed fairly. I know that, from a technical point of view, this issue does not come under the issue we are discussing now, but it is tangential to the general issue and I should like the Commissioner to tell me if the Commission has at its disposal studies which show how the cost of enlargement will ultimately be distributed. I refer to the question of own resources, Commissioner, but I think that these issues are directly connected."@en1

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