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"Madam President, I for my part should also like to express my sincere thanks to Mr Pittella, who has done a great job on this report and who has an even greater task ahead of him. After all, 2006 is a special year in budgetary terms because it is the last year falling under the ‘Agenda 2000’ budgetary framework. This means that, in certain respects, we have a limited degree of freedom. There are a number of issues, however, that are raised year after year. We in Parliament must once again make efforts to ensure that the payment appropriations required for the structural policy are in place. Last year, we saw that, in fact, more money was needed than was budgeted for. The funding of the decentralised agencies is another recurring problem, as we saw in the negotiations concerning the 2005 budget. This is something for which a solution needs to be found. Finally, there is the problem of funding new priorities and new tasks that arise, such as the reconstruction following the tsunami.
We in the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe attach great importance to the Lisbon Process and particularly to the programmes in which we develop the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises through the European Investment Fund, because a fairly low level of resources in the budget has a very great dispersal effect and secures economic growth in a way that is very cheap for the European budget.
Where EU foreign policy is concerned, we consider it very important to give the combating of HIV/AIDS high priority in the budget. We also believe that the budget should particularly support the EU’s neighbourhood policy, so that we promote democracy and human rights in the countries concerned.
Finally, I should like to mention the EU information policy, for which special efforts and particular attention are also required. In this area, we must, in particular, develop cooperation between the Commission and Parliament."@en1
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