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"The final stage has been reached on the financial perspective for the period 2007-2013 with the vote in favour of an overall package of EUR 866.4 billion. I should like to quote a figure to you: Europe costs each European 26 cents a day.
After the standstills on the part of certain Member States – I am referring to the ‘Club of the six skinflints’ – which were hoping for a cut-price agreement, we can be satisfied with the compromise adopted, despite its being far below Parliament’s initial proposal of June 2005, namely EUR 975 billion.
Parliament nonetheless managed to extract EUR 4 billion more than what the Council had decided, EUR 4 billion that has been granted mainly to policies regarding education (an extra 40 000 Erasmus scholarships!), research, competitiveness and innovation.
On the other hand, other areas have been sacrificed, such as ‘Life +’, a far-reaching environmental programme that will only receive 16% of the total funds initially provided for.
To conclude, we have an unsatisfactory agreement and a subsistence budget, which will make it possible to ensure some continuity, but which are nowhere near providing Europe with the resources needed for its ambitions."@en1
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