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"Mr President, let me raise a few issues from the perspective of a new Member State.
First, the new financial framework should be driven by the political priorities of the enlarged Union and the principle of solidarity among the Member States.
Second, the own-resources ceiling should be established at a level that would assure the successful integration of the new Member States in the Union and take account of commitments entered into during the accession negotiations.
Third, it is my firm belief that we, the European Parliament, have to support high allocations for the Lisbon strategy measures from the Commission's budget. A clear mechanism securing a certain share of funds for each Member State should be designed for funding this priority. I should also like to point out that the funding of the implementation of the Lisbon strategy objectives should not be at the expense of EU cohesion policy. The assistance planned for the implementation of the Lisbon strategy objectives should add to, rather than replace, the assistance under the cohesion policy, as competitiveness and cohesion are mutually reinforcing.
Fourth, from the point of view of less-developed economies in the EU, the level of financial assistance should be proportional to countries' current economic level of development. In any case the assistance rate per capita should not be higher in the more prosperous Member States than in the less-developed ones.
Fifth, we should also consider that the limitation of structural assistance through the capping rule, if it is applied in the next programming period, could, in some cases, slow down the social and economic convergence of the least-developed Member States, by directing cohesion policy resources to more developed Member States and regions.
Last but not least, the Commission rightly pointed out that an enlarged EU requires more money. It is impossible to overcome the challenges of an enlarged and ever-enlarging Europe with less money."@en1
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