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"Tough prioritising of the European Union’s resources is crucially important to bringing about the changes needed by Europe. Issues concerned with enlargement and with forging close links between EU countries need to be given priority, as well as the fight against crime and the work on making the EU into the world’s most competitive economy.
Aid for the weakest regions must be given priority, as must the ambition substantially to increase the EU’s research budget. Priority must also be given to the role of the EU in relation to the climate issue and to fighting poverty and infectious diseases. We do not accept an increase in administrative costs of 3% per year.
Low taxes on work and enterprise are one precondition for turning Europe into a successful economy. These require room for manoeuvre in the Member States’ financial policy. We therefore believe that the levels of commitments and payments adopted by the European Parliament are too high. In order to reduce the EU’s budget, we wish to revise the agreement from 2002 concerning agricultural expenditure and to carry out an overhaul of regional aid, with priority instead being given to the poorest regions.
For these reasons, we have abstained in the final vote, rather than voted against Parliament’s proposal, significant parts of which we are able to support. We cannot, however, give our support to the unduly high level of expenditure, especially as the way in which it would be distributed would not coincide with our priorities."@en1
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