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Mr President, our rapporteur has done a very careful and very thorough job. It is no criticism of him to say that the value of the exercise to which we are devoting ourselves this evening is, however, fairly limited, indeed very limited, particularly by the outcome of the vote taken by our Parliament this morning.
Since Parliament had stated that the amount of the financial perspective had to be increased considerably and since its idea was to obtain a three-figure extension, I, for my part, was hoping for at least a two-figure extension. Instead, we voted this morning in favour of a small, one-figure, extension: EUR 2 billion plus EUR 2 billion. All future policy initiatives will therefore see their margins for manoeuvre severely limited, to the point of being almost non-existent. Thus, our rapporteur states, in his first paragraph, that the 2007-2013 financial perspective is backward-looking and therefore poorly placed to respond effectively to the challenges concerned. He also points out, in paragraph 2, that the Annual Policy Strategy does not reflect the urgency with which such challenges should be addressed. I rest my case.
In these circumstances, my group is obviously trying to define a few priorities. The first, which is along the lines of the rapporteur’s own thinking, is about achieving maximum impact. When you do not have much money, you have to make good use of such money as you do have. Some serious studies therefore need to be carried out on the cost-efficiency ratio, particularly in relation to the Lisbon and Gothenburg Strategies. There is a tendency to forget that these strategies are not only about competitiveness but also about the social and employment dimensions. In the view of the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, it is a good thing to invest in sustainable development.
The second priority concerns the rendezvous clause. Mrs Grybauskaitė, we believe - or, rather, we still try to believe - in the rendezvous clause, which we also voted in favour of this morning. Thanks to this clause, we shall be able perhaps finally to show new margins, particularly where agriculture is concerned. All the same, I am sorry that our friends from the Socialist Group in the European Parliament have decided to delete the passage on aid that might be given to agriculture, possibly at national level. This morning, we left a few doors open with the help of the rendezvous clause. This evening, we see that these doors are very narrow, in spite of the high-quality work done by our fellow Member. Please, let us leave them as they are."@en1
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