Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-12-13-Speech-2-036"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-12-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Draft general budget 2006, as modified by the Council (all sections) - Mobilisation of the flexibility instrument - Draft amending budget No 8/20052
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20051213.6.2-036"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-12-13-Speech-2-0372
lpv:speaker	lp:Hans-Peter Martin2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Liste Dr. Hans-Peter Martin - Für echte Kontrolle in Brüssel (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; ECON (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2005-09-08--2007-01-14)3 member; NA (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2004-09-22--2007-03-13)3 member; CONT (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; BUDG (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with Iran (2004-10-13--2007-03-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, every year, around this time, we live through a period of unprecedented extravagance in the European Union. I am talking about the surpluses, which give us a small foretaste of what we can – unfortunately – expect on a larger scale later on. Yesterday, the Committee on Budgets was discussing something the presence of which on the agenda was cause for bafflement, namely the purchase, for the sum of EUR 3 million, of a building for the European Parliament in Valletta – it is worth mentioning that the intention was that the Commission should be a tenant. All five Maltese MEPs are against the idea, saying that it is too remote and difficult to get to, and that they would rather carry on renting at the present favourable rate. They have to accept it, though, since there is a surplus and it has to be spent. So along comes one of your colleagues, Mr President, the Vice-President Mr Onesta, and says, ‘that is a good property investment, and I promise you that, in three years’ time, if we find something better, we will be able to sell the building at a profit and move on somewhere else’. We are forced to accept these benefactions, and the European Parliament is made into a property speculator by the mere fact of having too much money, and then people wonder why it is that, in Malta, the public wonder what this is all in aid of, what sort of waste this is, what sort of attitude this is to take. Away with such practices, and let us have proper budgeting – the sort that is not guaranteed by the draft budget we have before us, and so I, of course, will be among those voting against it."@en1

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