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"Mr President, there are only 15 months left before the start of the Union's first new seven–year budgetary period. Despite the Union's agreed rules and conventions, however, we still do not have a draft budget. The Union is drifting rudderless across a budgetary ocean, so to speak. Each successive month of delay results in needless tension and unease, and gives rise to distrust between the old and new Member States.
By failing to produce a budget, the Union is sending out the wrong kind of message to its future members and its external partners. It is presenting itself as weak, lacking vision for the future and the political will to work together in solidarity in order to build that future. This situation does not suggest stalemate, to borrow an expression from the game of chess. Rather, it suggests checkmate for the idea of a truly united Europe that is not split into a first and second class Europe according to wealth or historical legacy.
I call on the Council and the UK Presidency to ensure that work on the budget is concluded at the earliest opportunity."@en1
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