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Mr President, Mr Vice-President of the Commission, I should like to start by thanking you, Mr Vice-President, on behalf of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats, for the role you have played as mediator, which has been very important in achieving this compromise, but I would also, of course, like to offer very sincere thanks particularly to the rapporteur, Mr Mauro, and to the former chairman, Mr Costa, who is still actively involved in things, not to mention Mr Lewandowski, for bringing this compromise about.
At the same time, it has to be said that the Council dragged things out for months on end, and it is the Council that is to blame for our present inability to pay out even now the money for trans-European projects in 2007; there is no doubt that responsibility for this lies with the Council, for it would have been much better for us to have had this Financial Regulation earlier on and been able to take a decision at an earlier juncture.
You, Commissioner, have undertaken to keep us fully informed, and I am sure you will communicate not only with the chairmen of committees, but also the committees themselves. I would urge you to be as stringent in examining these things as you have undertaken to be. Let there be no national quotas; the funds should be approved for projects that are of importance to Europe, and not to this or that country.
Rather than fund in dribs and drabs, we should support the really important projects; what that means is that not everyone should get something, but the projects that are of real importance to Europe should, following consultation with this House and with the Commission, be comprehensively subsidised.
The Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats appeals to the German Federal Government to clarify by this summer how things stand in respect of two major and cross-border projects in Germany, or else the EU will not be able to take them into account in its financial planning. Firstly, it must produce clear plans for the deepening of the Danube between Straubing and Vilshofen, which is intended finally to make navigation of the Danube from the Black Sea to the North Sea economically viable, and, secondly, Germany and Denmark must come to an agreement on the building and financing of a fixed link over the Fehmarnbelt, a project that can be included in the financial planning only as and when evidence of a bilateral agreement has been produced."@en1
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