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I wish to reiterate the comments already made at first reading, regretting that this draft budget for the financial year 2005 should, overall, total only 1.004% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the 25 European Union Member States. I should like it to be more ambitious, as is essential after the accession of ten new Member States, and to make sense of the discourse of those who say they want to develop institutional Europe by moving into new policies and areas of responsibility.
In view of the negotiations as a whole, however, and the real economic and financial difficulties of the current situation, I would highlight certain results that were achieved in the difficult conciliation process. I believe it is significant that we have got past the psychological threshold of the 1% imposed in the ‘Letter of the Six’, even if only by a tiny amount.
I consider certain advances to have been positive, namely in the area of maritime safety (particularly pollution) and the maintenance of the framework of structural policies and external policies, especially in development aid; I also welcome the special relationships with ACP countries.
The rapporteur’s comments are realistic and point to a certain inconsistency in the project announced in the Commission’s proposal, that this would be the budget of ‘competitiveness and cohesion’. I expect something much better from the Financial Perspective for 2007-2013."@en1
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