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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like first of all to express my sincere thanks to our fellow Members, Mr Pittella and Mr Dombrovskis, as well as to Mrs Jensen, for the enormous task they carried out during this long procedure. This budget, while not perfect, is, in my opinion, relatively satisfactory, and I am delighted that the level of payment appropriations has been brought up to EUR 112 billion, that is to say 1.01% of GNI, and that our operating costs have been curbed and relatively stabilised. As permanent rapporteur for the Structural Funds within the Committee on Budgets, I might nevertheless have hoped that the Council would have granted more appropriations to all of these financial instruments, which remain the cornerstone of our policies aimed at reducing territorial disparities. What is more, I, like many of our fellow Members, am still waiting to hear the results of the European Council negotiations, and I should like to drive home the point that it is worth keeping in mind Parliament’s positions during these negotiations. At a time now when we need Europe most, it is crucial that the Member States provide the European Union with genuine financial resources. We need Europe so that we can carry out an ambitious economic policy for its 450 million people. We need Europe so that we can carry out a common foreign and security policy, which is distinct from those of the self-contained empires throughout the world. To conclude – and contrary to the opinion expressed by some of our fellow Members with regard to brainwashing - we need Europe more than ever in order to build a project for society uniting us around shared values. That is my dream; I hope that it is yours too."@en1

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