Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-06-13-Speech-2-013"

Predicate	Value (sorted: default)
rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-06-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Seventh framework programme – Nuclear research and training activities (2007-2011) (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060613.6.2-013"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-06-13-Speech-2-0142
lpv:speaker	lp:Marilisa Xenogiannakopoulou2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2007-09-25)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya) (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2007-09-25)3 member; CONT (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Panellinio Socialistiko Kinima (2004-07-20--2007-09-25)3 substitute; ITRE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; BUDG (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, I should like to start by congratulating our rapporteur, Mr Buzek, on his excellent work. Our debate today on the Seventh Framework Programme is particularly important. It relates to the potential for Europe to implement an effective strategy of sustainable development, by investing in knowledge and the future, a policy which will allow it to stand up to international competition not by reducing employment standards and abolishing the social state, but by investing in education, research, innovation and excellence. In this direction, we as the European Parliament support in principle the need for a significant increase in the appropriations for the seventh framework programme. Unfortunately, at the European Council in December the restrictive, accounting mentality prevailed, for the financial perspective as a whole and for research and technology in particular. It is, of course, a question of the governments' credibility, when they blithely set important objectives for the development and competitiveness of the European economy and then fail to express the political will to finance research and technology policies adequately. With persistent negotiation on the part of Parliament, we achieved a compromise of EUR 50 521 000, which marginally improves the programme's prospects but is a far cry from the real requirements that need to be covered. It is certainly positive that an additional EUR 100 000 000 has been secured for access for small and medium-sized businesses to innovation technologies, as we all recognise their contribution to development and employment. It is also important that the energy sector has received a further EUR 150 000 000, because the further spread of renewable sources of energy and the rational use of energy are of vital importance. I should also like to emphasise that it is important to safeguard the potential for all regions of the European Union to access and apply the programmes under the framework programme as a basic policy of long-term development, convergence and social cohesion, with the core objective of combating the digital divide, the research and innovation divide within Europe."@en1

Named graphs describing this resource:

The resource appears as object in 2 triples

Context graph