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"Mr President, Commissioner, you have spoken beautifully, expressing plenty of enthusiasm and good intentions, but, as usual, we must get down to realities, particularly when it comes to talking about budgets.
Commissioner, the last document that Parliament had in relation to budgetary priorities was presented in December last year. I am talking about the resolutions that accompanied the current budget, the 2007 budget.
Our question would be whether you believe that those resolutions, which we approved by an overwhelming majority in this House and which you received very warmly, have been incorporated into the annual political strategy document.
It seems to us that they have not been incorporated and that is a problem, Commissioner, because we always find ourselves in the same situation: Parliament draws up a series of guidelines that should be taken into account in the next budgetary procedure, you lay out your political priorities in this annual political strategy document, you add a budgetary component, but you do not take any notice, or at least you do not take sufficient notice, of everything Parliament asked for the year before.
That happens year after year. We have yet to find a perfect balance between the budgetary procedures and the European Commission’s legislative programme and therefore our two institutions often work in parallel, but we have not yet managed to bring our systems into line.
You are playing a game with the timetable. You draw up political priorities but, as the rapporteur for this year’s budget, Mr Virrankoski, has said, Parliament has not so far had any indication of what the European Commission’s political priorities for this year will be, and that means that, when it comes to drawing up the budget, we will find yet again that this Parliament’s budgetary priorities do not coincide with the political priorities laid out by the European Commission.
We find this, for example, within the framework of the financial implications. You intend to fund these political priorities by means of certain headings that are increasing and other headings that are being reduced; you are asking us for 890 new posts in the Commission, although you hope to create most of them by means of internal readjustments; furthermore, you expect to make adjustments in the executive agencies. Commissioner, like every year, we feel a degree of confusion and during this year’s budgetary procedure we hope that we will be able to reach agreements that do not involve great budgetary tensions with the Council, nor, in particular, with you."@en1
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