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"Mr President, the enlarged European Union’s second budget is in the process of becoming reality. The broad consensus reached within Parliament means that the final vote should hold no surprises, and so I will start by saying some ‘thank yous’, for which I will otherwise run out of time. I should like to thank the rapporteurs, Mr Pittella, Mr Dombrovskis, Mr Böge and Mr Garriga Polledo, the political group coordinators and our secretariat, headed by Maria Fialho.
Our partners in this undertaking, or in other words Mr Lewis and Commissioner Grybauskaitė, are both well aware of the fact that this year’s budget was a challenge, and that tensions ran high during the negotiations. This does not diminish the mutual respect shared by the players in this EU institutional triangle, however. Parliament had to fulfil its mission and the commitments it entered into upon being elected, and indeed it did so. This was apparent from its endeavours to defend its priorities under the headings of internal and external policies, which was a far from easy task in the final year of a financial perspective. I am delighted that we have managed to find extra funding for six of the programmes adopted under the codecision procedure. It has also been necessary to mobilise the flexibility instrument, and even to exceed its annual ceiling. All these decisions were taken in accordance with the Interinstitutional Agreement, which is proof of the value of this latter.
I am quite sure that it will be a long time before we forget the team spirit demonstrated by the members of Parliament’s delegation during these nerve-wracking negotiations. This was an example of genuine unity in diversity, and a good sign for the future. Yet our joy at having a proper annual budget for 2006 is tempered by the uncertainty that surrounds the multi-annual Financial Perspective. By this I do not mean uncertainty on our part, since we have adopted a position and are now awaiting developments. I can only hope that we will finally see signs this week that the European Union is overcoming the crisis in which it finds itself, by reaching an agreement on the most challenging issue of all, namely money. I also hope that the agreement is not one that leaves poorer countries with their backs against the wall, since we are all aware that these countries need to be able to plan ahead in order to conduct sensible regional policies."@en1
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