Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-06-07-Speech-2-218"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-06-07"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Policy challenges and budgetary means2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050607.25.2-218"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-06-07-Speech-2-2192
lpv:speaker	lp:Robert Goebbels2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Parti ouvrier socialiste luxembourgeois (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; CONT (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007-2013 (2004-10-14--2005-06-08)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; ECON (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; INTA (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 vice-chair; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the Union should now demonstrate its ability to act by adopting an ambitious Financial Perspective. The fact is that the Presidency’s proposals, although they do break the 1% barrier, remain timid. That the Union should only be allowed to spend another EUR 40 billion in absolute terms over a seven-year period is disappointing. Let us imagine for a moment that all of this money were to be invested in research. At the present time, the Americans spend one hundred billion euros more than Europeans on research every year. An amount of 40 billion, spread over seven years, would not even correspond to half of the present annual shortfall, although much of this gap will obviously have to be filled by the private sector. Europe has run aground. The political gnomes who govern us are allowing demagogues from the extreme Right and Left, including National Socialists and other separatists, to demolish the European dream. Our Union needs more solidarity and therefore more of its own resources in order to overthrow the niggardly accounting system based on net balances and rebates. I have proposed a European levy of one cent on every litre of petrol, diesel and kerosene sold in the Union. No consumer or economic operator would buckle under the weight of such a tax, which would net more than EUR 40 billion over seven years. Let us dare to break the mould of national self-interest; let us dare to adopt a more European approach. It is impossible to identify precisely where benefits accrue and costs are incurred within a single market. The countries with the most developed economies evidently benefit most from any additional common growth."@en1

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