Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-05-16-Speech-2-381"

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dcterms:Date	"2006-05-16"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20060516.41.2-381"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-05-16-Speech-2-3822
lpv:speaker	lp:Ieke van den Burg2
lpv:spokenAs	member; ECON (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; IMCO (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Committee of Inquiry into the crisis of the Equitable Life Assurance Society (2006-01-19--2007-06-19)3 unknown; Partij van de Arbeid (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	". Madam President, I should first like to respond to what Mr Almunia said about something that is included in paragraph 8 of the report with regard to the incorrect application of the Stability and Growth Pact. I agree with him that we did not claim either that this would be a case of incorrect application. That is why we have tabled an amendment to correct this wording. I would also ask the other groups to look into this. Our Amendment 7 tries, in fact, to remove this wording altogether from the text. With regard to the statistics and prognoses, your remark that the content of the 2005 report has seemingly been superseded underlines once again how relative these prognoses and statistics are. I would also like to stress this in the light of what you said today about Lithuania, a Member State that wants to join the eurozone and in respect of which comments can indeed be made if one considers the figures. Only one figure matters, in fact, namely that of inflation, while many Member States would envy that country for its achievements in other areas of public finance. I only say this to illustrate the relative nature of the figures. We consider the recommendations that are issued to the euro group in a bid to improve the procedures another important element in this report. I think we are well on our way in this respect, in the framework of the Lisbon Strategy to joining forces with national parliaments and to seeing how a number of public finance procedures in the Member States can be streamlined in terms of timing, but also in terms of assumptions that are made about the oil price development and other parameters that are important for the planning of policy. I think that in this respect, there is much room for improvement in order to make this more predictable and more comparable in a European context. While I would, once again, like to bring those recommendations to the Commissioner’s attention, I think it is also necessary to bring them to Mr Juncker’s attention, as chairman of the euro group, to ensure that we make serious headway there too. I think it is crucial that this be flagged in this report. The same also applies to the quality of the statistics. That is another important point we have raised several times, and we would like to support the Commissioner in his attempts to make improvements in that area too. Finally, I would like to draw your attention to, and at the same time underline, the last paragraphs of the report."@en1

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