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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, voting in favour of this financial perspective would mean going back on one’s decision and not providing Europe with the resources for its ambitions. In June 2005, virtually the whole of Parliament voted in favour of a budget of EUR 974 billion. This, in order to make a success of enlargement and of a policy of active growth and of support for research, thereby preparing for the future. Today, the same people are preparing to vote in favour of the financial perspective, which has been slashed by EUR 110 billion. Would you believe it? I challenge anyone to understand that. To vote in favour of that would be tantamount to believing that a two-speed form of enlargement exists: that of the past, which, in the South, enabled Greece, Portugal and Spain fully to develop; and that of the present, which, in the East, inspires a debate that is all the more grandiloquent because it conceals the fact that there is insufficient financing. On every side of this House, I will make a bet with you that, month after month, year after year, report after report, we will have to suffer the long litany of regrets at having an insufficient budget, but it will be too late. It is now that the European Parliament must confirm that it is the driving force behind European life. To quote the words of the Bolivian President, Mr Evo Morales Ayma, who visited us here the day before yesterday: ‘let us not lie, let us not be weak, let us be strong, let us not accept a financial perspective that is a cut-price financial perspective'."@en1

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