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"Mr President, Commissioner, I think that the draft 2006 budget, which is now before us following the vote in the Committee on Budgets, is well balanced, and I hope that, during tomorrow’s vote, we can continue to sing from the same hymn sheet regarding not only the general lines of the budget but also the details of the compromise established between a broad majority here in the Committee on Budgets.
I also wish to say a big thank you to Mr Pittella for his major efforts in bringing about a compromise and for his readiness to listen and his considerable patience. Mr Pittella has made the youth and education programmes his main priority, and that is to his credit, I think. Precisely by investing in this area, we shall be achieving very considerable results with very few resources.
Thanks should also go to Mr Dombrovskis for his work involving the other institutions.
Those points in the compromise that we in the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe would particularly emphasise involve increased appropriations to the Lisbon Process, especially to research and to the programme for developing credit facilities for small enterprises in the new Member States. We should also very much like to emphasise that we have put our faith in more realistic appropriations to the area of foreign policy, in which the foreign ministers apparently think that it is the poor countries that should suffer privation so that we can fund the reconstruction following the tsunami and that it is the poor countries that, following the sugar reform, should fund the compensation paid to those countries that are deprived of their quotas. That is, of course, quite unacceptable, and that is why it is right to do what we are going to do, namely use the flexibility instrument.
When it comes to the Structural Funds, adequate payment appropriations are of course required, and we can see how, in recent years, there has been better implementation of our projects. For two years, the payment appropriations in the budget have in actual fact been too low, and that is the situation we are remedying.
Under the budget heading, ‘Pilot projects and preparatory actions’, which is a small item, more is of course desired than there are resources for, and I am pleased that resources have been successfully earmarked for a pilot project to build safe lay-bys on European motorways, enabling us to make active efforts to prevent attacks on long-distance lorry drivers and to guarantee greater security. It is a small thing, but a very important one.
In Parliament’s budget, we wish to support the compromise whereby we set aside reserves for information policy, including Web TV, as well as for continuing to purchase buildings so that we save rent in the future. We have been reluctant to go below the 20%, but we support the compromise. It is important for us not to set aside larger reserves than necessary in the budget.
The overall budget we now have is larger than that offered by the Council, but not so large that we cannot defend it. Clearly, this budgetary debate is influenced by the lack of agreement on the financial perspective for 2007-2013. My group comes out, then, in clear support of the proposal before us. The appropriations are realistic and necessary."@en1
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