Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-02-13-Speech-2-282"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-02-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Voluntary modulation of direct payments under the CAP (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070213.20.2-282"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-02-13-Speech-2-2832
lpv:speaker	lp:Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; BUDG (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; G/EFA (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; AGRI (2007-02-01--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	". Madam President, Commissioner, Parliament has presented many good proposals on medium-term financial programming, but the Council has not adopted them. The Council has reduced the funds for rural development, against the recommendations of the Commission and Parliament – we had been in agreement on this – by EUR 20 billion. We do not now need to feel responsible for the Council’s nonsense. If such proposals had come from Parliament, we would have been a laughing stock. At that time, we said we wanted to contemplate cofinancing as a means of providing funds if they ran short. We want the first and second pillars to be treated alike in terms of Member States’ payments. None of this has happened. The current situation is that, in Germany, for example, the second-pillar funds are being reduced by 40%, and naturally we have to ask the German Government to apply 20% voluntary modulation to compensate for this. We cannot accept such nonsense at European level, however, as there are better proposals. When the Commission says – as the Council has also done – that putting this in the reserve will mean rural areas and development being taken hostage, that is incorrect. We are the ones defending the development of the rural economy and putting a stop to the Council’s nonsense. If the Council does not present better proposals or adopt better proposals of the Commission’s, we shall have to resort to other measures on which Parliament has powers of codecision, which we would not otherwise have had. Common sense is on the side of Parliament rather than the Council in this matter. I would ask the Commissioner to take our side, as we have taken her side, and remind the Council of its obligation to think and act rationally."@en1

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