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Consistent with our proposal to reject the Community budget for 2005, we voted against this report, which reflects the degree of hypocrisy and whitewashing that has run through the budgetary procedure that is now ending. Parliament is criticising the Council, complaining that it is reducing payments in agriculture, that it does not accept its proposals, that it is unwilling to assess the needs of the European agencies and that it has forced it to make cuts compared with first reading; more than enough reasons for rejecting it.
Despite this scenario, Parliament welcomes the agreement reached with the Council at the conciliation of 25 November and whitewashes the procedure by claiming that, thanks to its efforts, ‘drastic cuts were avoided’ and its traditional priorities were retained, which is manifestly untrue. Unfortunately, that has been the story of all the budgetary procedures since 2000. In that time, the flexibility instrument has been used five times in a row, thereby justifying the Portuguese Communist Party’s proposal to review the current financial perspective.
Every year, Parliament accepts terms that call even its budgetary powers into question, for the sake of the sacrosanct Stability Pact. That begs the question, then, of why it wants to strengthen its powers if it does not make use of them."@en1
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