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"Perhaps I might also point out that it is made very clear in the relevant paragraph of the Inter-Institutional Agreement that the use of the flexibility instrument this year would have yielded up to us easily more than EUR 400 million, if we had adhered strictly to the wording of the Agreement. That being so, agreement to EUR 275 million for the use of flexibility also amounts to mutual
and I ask the House to vote to adopt this report on the use of the flexibility instrument in relation to the 2006 Budget in its present form.
I would also like to take this opportunity to point out that this House did, in the course of negotiations on the Financial Perspective, make a proposal as to how we might in future take a more flexible approach, albeit one based strictly on budgetary discipline, and also observe that it is not only the issue of a globalisation fund that is on the agenda, but that we also have to respond much more rapidly and consistently in many important categories of European Budget policy. This House made it perfectly clear, on 8 June, that its negotiating position on this is in fact not itself subject to negotiation.
Let me add in conclusion that, for the British Prime Minister Mr Blair, as President-in-Office of the Council, to say, on the subject of the negotiations on the Financial Perspective, that either there is a deal in December or there will be no more agreement under the Austrian or Finnish presidencies, is for him to threaten a blockade. I note with satisfaction that, in interviews, he adduces Parliament as what one might call an argument, along the lines of: if the Council will not come to an agreement, then the decision on the budget will have to pass to Parliament. I can tell him that Parliament is ready for it."@en1
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