Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-04-23-Speech-1-194"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-04-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The Commission's annual strategic priorities (Budget 2008) (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070423.20.1-194"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-04-23-Speech-1-1952
lpv:speaker	lp:Salvador Garriga Polledo2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; CONT (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; BUDG (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ECON (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Partido Popular (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2006-02-06--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, I would like to pay tribute to the mastery of financial management that the Directorate-General for Budgets has achieved at this stage in 2007. Year after year, financial perspective after financial perspective, the Council puts the European Commission in a position that is very difficult to overcome. Every year, the European Commission is obliged to cover increasingly ambitious objectives with fewer and fewer resources. It seems that the Member States see the European Union as a perfect stage from which to satisfy their national public opinion, very cheaply, of course. When the Member States discover concern amongst the citizens – about growth or about employment – they launch the Lisbon Strategy and tell the European Commission to look for the funding. When they discover that the European public is worried about immigration or energy or global warming, they ask the Commission to look for funding for these spectacular measures. The problem is that commitments remain and yesterday’s priorities do not disappear just because other priorities are put before them. At some point, sooner rather than later, the European Commission — despite its General Committee on Budgets — will stretch itself too far and all of this wonderful financial engineering involving ‘back-loading’ and ‘front-loading’ will not be sufficient to deal with so many priorities. That will perhaps be the time for big financial decisions and let us hope that, when that day comes, the European Commission’s political skill is a match for the financial skill it has shown today."@en1

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